Jason Scott Sadofsky

Jason Scott Sadofsky, more commonly known as Jason Scott, is the creator, owner and maintainer of the textfiles.com web site which archives files from historic bulletin board systems. He is also the creator of a documentary film about BBSes, BBS Documentary due to be released in the future.

He currently resides in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

Scott is also known by the pseudonyms "SketchCow" and previously "The Slipped Disk".

He has been a speaker at DEF CON, an annual hacker conference, the first time at the 7th conference in 1999, then again in 2000, 2003 and 2004. Scott also spoke at the 5th H.O.P.E. conference, in 2004, as well as PhreakNIC 6, Notacon 2004 and Rubi Cons 4 and 5. Most of his talks focus on the capturing of digital history or consist of narratives of stories relevant to his experiences online.

References

Jason Scott, The Defendant (July 2001). So You Got Your Lame Ass Sued: A Legal Narrative. DEF CON speaker. Retrieved 2004-11–19.
Jason Sadofsky, The Tribune Articles, 1987–88
Jason Scott, The Life and Times of Jason Scott

External links

Jason Scott — Personal homepage
ASCII — jason scott's weblog
textfiles.com — BBS archive project
BBS Documentary — Web site for the documentary
HarvardNetSucks
Saving Digital History: A Quick and Dirty Guide, by Jason Scott (Hope 2004 Conference)
The Whole Lawsuit Thing — HarvardNetSucks account of the lawsuit.
http://www.sadofsky.com/