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Harald Welte is a data communications freelancer, enthusiast and hacker
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who is working with Free Software (and particularly GNU/Linux)
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since 1995 His major code contribution to the Linux kernel was as a
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core developer of the netfilter/iptables packet filter.
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He has co-started a number of other Free Software and Free Hardware
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projects, mainly related to RFID such as librfid, OpenMRTD, OpenBeacon,
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OpenPCD, OpenPICC. During 2006 and 2007 Harald became the co-founder of
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OpenMoko, where he served as Lead System Architect for the worlds first
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100% Open Free Software based mobile phone.
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Aside from his technical contributions, Harald has been pioneering the legal
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enforcement of the GNU GPL license as part of his gpl-violations.org project.
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More than 150 inappropriate use of GPL licensed code by commercial companies
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have been resolved as part of this effort, both in court and out of court. He
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has received the 2007 "FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software" and the
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"2008 Google/O'Reilly Open Source award: Defender of Rights".
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In 2008, Harald started to work on Free Software on the GSM protocol side, both
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for passive sniffing and protocol analysis, as well as an actual network-side
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GSM stack implementation called OpenBSC. In 2010, he expanded those
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efforts by creating OsmocomBB, a GSM telephony-side baseband processor
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firmware and protocol stack. Other projects include
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OsmocomTETRA, a receive-only implementation of the ETSI TETRA radio
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interface.
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Together with fellow developer Dieter Spaar, Harald has been giving many
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incarnations of deeply technical trainings about mobile communications
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protocols from the air inteface to the core network, with a special
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emphasis on security.
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Harald is co-founder of sysmocom GmbH, Berlin/Germany based company
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working on innovative Free Software based products and solutions for
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conventional and unconventional operators of mobile networks. Said
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projects are also used by various entities in research of mobile
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security.
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