Pierre Pronchery has been an IT-Security Consultant for over five years now, and currently delivering either source code audits, reverse-engineering or network penetration-tests as a freelancer. He is also an Open Source developer, contributing to Operating System projects like NetBSD or hackable:1. As founder of the DeforaOS project, he is researching and applying the latest advances in network theory ("Clean-Slate Internet") to personal computing environments. With this experience, he is currently getting involved in CKAB, a startup focusing on Open Sourcehardware and the Internet of Things.