Achievements
Hocevar is best known for his contributions to the Debian and VideoLAN projects. He has made large contributions to almost all software of the VideoLAN project, especially to VLC media player and libdvdcss, since 1998 and he is the author of various software programs, such as zzuf, a data fuzzer, and libcaca, a color ASCII art renderer. He is also the current maintainer of the Extension Language Kit Scheme interpreter, which has found use in many multimedia applications including audio processing.
Besides this, he is known for his extensive work in reverse engineering and image processing. He reverse engineered DVD subtitles in 2000 and in 2005, it was found that the DRM software which triggered the Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal had unlawfully pirated open source code from the VideoLAN project which Sam Hocevar was involved in authoring.
Sam Hocevar's experience in image processing includes authoring a Captcha decoding framework called PWNtcha. PWNtcha was the first captcha decoder framework to defeat multiple captchas and was referred to as the "most famous" captcha breaker by a 2009 Stanford University publication.
He authored WTFPL version 2, an extremely liberal, permissive free software license that is recognized by the Free Software Foundation. Hocevar has also been cited for his "whimsical" copyleft activism. Hocevar is also part of Goatse Security, an information security working group most known for revealing security flaws in the Apple iPad.
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“There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements, and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end result of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.”
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