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Jon Lech Johansen

1983 - Today

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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. 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 from October 2005 until November 2006. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Jon Lech Johansen is the 239th most popular computer scientist (down from 231st in 2024), the 859th most popular biography from Norway (down from 784th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Norwegian Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Jon Lech Johansen ranks 239 out of 245. Before him are Dariusz Jemielniak, Jenova Chen, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Larry Ewing, Theodore Ts'o, and Jeff Dean. After him are Rosalind Picard, Andrej Karpathy, David Braben, Denny Vrandečić, Fabrice Bellard, and David Heinemeier Hansson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1983, Jon Lech Johansen ranks 880. Before him are Piotr Małachowski, Naoya Kondo, Zana Marjanović, Renata Voráčová, David Lee, and Sharni Vinson. After him are Keith Langford, Anderson Gonzaga, Dhanush, Firas Al-Khatib, Ahmed Al-Kaf, and Jaycee Carroll.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Jon Lech Johansen ranks 859 out of 1,039. Before him are Ida Alstad (1985), Marianne Pettersen (1975), Annette Skotvoll (1968), Bjarte Myrhol (1982), Marius Lindvik (1998), and Hadia Tajik (1983). After him are Jørgen Graabak (1991), Trine Skei Grande (1969), Daniel-André Tande (1994), Sjur Røthe (1988), Thorstein Helstad (1977), and Tonje Nøstvold (1985).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Norway

Among computer scientists born in Norway, Jon Lech Johansen ranks 4. Before him are Ole-Johan Dahl (1931), Kristen Nygaard (1926), and Geir Ivarsøy (1957).

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