Virgil Griffith (born March 6, 1983), also known as Romanpoet, is an American hacker, known for his involvement in a 2003 lawsuit with Blackboard Inc. and his creation of WikiScanner. He has published papers on artificial life and is currently a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology. A The New York Times bio dubbed him as the Internet Man of Mystery.
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