Tsutomu Shimomura

Tsutomu Shimomura (http://www.takedown.com/bio/tsutomu.html)

Tsutomu Shimomura was born in Japan and grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. He attended college at the California Institute of Technology. In 1989 he began working at the University of California at San Diego and the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Tsutomu has assisted in building parallel computers at Thinking Machines Corporation and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has also testified before Congress on the lack of privacy and security on cell phones. Shimomura currently lives in San Diego.

Shimomura is most famous for his help in the 1995 tracking and arrest of computer hacker Kevin Mitnick after Mitnick managed to hack Shimomura's computer system. Shimomura and John Markoff, a computer journalist who had also assisted in the capture of Mitnick, published a book, Takedown, in 1996 on the subject. Takedown was made in to a movie in 2000.