In this month’s MS security newsletter, I happened to be chosen for MVP of the month:
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Paul Laudanski, a.k.a. Zhen-Xjell, has been a techno-geek since the 1970s. Laudanski’s first genuine computer experience was with the Commodore-64 and a 300 Baud modem running a 24/7 colored ASCII BBS. In the 1980s he became involved in DOS and Windows. During the 1990s he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in pure Mathematics and expanded his reach into PCBoard, Centipede, Ygdrasil, Fidonet, Unix, and Linux. These days Laudanski loves to hang out at CastleCops.com (which he founded in 2002), as well as other security-related lists and Web sites. His passions include programming, system hardening, security, and privacy. Paul and his wife (who is also a Microsoft MVP in Windows Security and wrote the MVP Article of the Month below) are proud parents of their first son.