Jim Christy
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Jim Christy is chief of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations's computer crime investigations unit. As the founder of the world's largest digital forensics shop he is notable for his involvement in high priority government computer security.
In 1988, he investigated the notorious Hanover Hackers, a band of West German digital delinquents who sold information stolen from United States Defense Department computers, to the KGB. It was his first hacker case as an OSI agent.
Facts quoted from http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/cybercop.html [captured 1/19/2007]:
was 19 when he joined the military
knew he wouldn't be able to take a student deferment, so enlisted in the Airforce in 1971.
"He became a computer operator, eventually landing on the night shift at the Pentagon. He stayed on after his discharge, and in 1986 he heard the Air Force Office of Special Investigations was looking for a computer crime investigator"
In 1998, Christy's lab was moved from the Air Force to the Department of Defense.
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