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Jon Lech Johansen
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Jon Lech Johansen

Norwegian programmer (born 1983)

Jon Lech Johansen (born November 18, 1983, in Harstad, Norway), also known as DVD Jon, is a Norwegian programmer who has worked on reverse engineering data formats. He wrote the DeCSS software, which decodes the Content Scramble System used for DVD licensing enforcement.2

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Born Nov 18, 1983.1

About

Johansen is a self-trained software engineer, who quit high school during his first year to spend more time with the DeCSS case. He moved to the United States and worked as a software engineer for about a year, from October 2005 until November 2006, whereupon he returned to Norway. Johansen moved back to the United States in June, 2007.

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Early life and education

Jon Lech Johansen was born in Harstad to a Norwegian father and a Polish mother. The family later moved to Lardal Municipality, where he grew up. At the age of twelve, Johansen began learning programming. He attended Thor Heyerdahl Upper Secondary School in Larvik.

In a post on his blog, he said that in the 1990s he started with a book (Programming the 8086/8088), the web ("Fravia's site was a goldmine") and IRC ("Lurked in a x86 assembly IRC channel and picked up tips from wise wizards").

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Career

Occupation: computer scientist, programmer, cryptographer.4

Personal life

  • BornNov 18, 1983, Harstad Municipality5
  • CitizenshipNorway, Poland6

Awards

  • 2002EFF Award7 9
  • 2000Karoline Award7 8

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