Fravia
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Francesco Vianello (30 August 1952 – 3 May 2009), better known by his nickname Fravia (sometimes +Fravia or Fravia+), was a software reverse engineer, who maintained a web archive of reverse engineering techniques and papers. He also worked on steganography. He taught on subjects such as data mining, anonymity and stalking.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Oulu
- Place of death
- Brussels-Capital Region
- Occupation
- historian
- Languages spoken
- Italian
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- date of birth
- 1952-08-30
- date of death
- 2009-05-03
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- cancer
- birth name
- Francesco Vianello
- pseudonym
- Fravia
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- As Francesco Vianello
- As Fravia
- First Period: Reverse Engineering ("Reality Cracking")
- Second Period: Web Searching ("Search Lores")
- +HCU
- Legacy
- Published works
- Notes and references
- External links
Francesco Vianello (30 August 1952 – 3 May 2009), better known by his nickname Fravia (sometimes +Fravia or Fravia+), was a software reverse engineer, who maintained a web archive of reverse engineering techniques and papers. He also worked on steganography. He taught on subjects such as data mining, anonymity and stalking.
Vianello spoke six languages (including Latin) and had a degree in the history of the early Middle Ages. He was an expert in linguistics-related informatics. For five years he made available a large quantity of material related to reverse engineering through his website, which also hosted the advice of reverse engineering experts, known as reversers, who provided tutorials and essays on how to hack software code as well as advice related to the assembly and disassembly of applications, and software protection reversing.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fravia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.