Hector Martin (hacker)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Martín and the second or maternal family name is Cantero.
Hector Martin
Born
Héctor Martín Cantero

(1990-09-09) 9 September 1990 (age 34)
NationalitySpanish
Occupation(s)Security consultant, hacker
Years active2010–current
Known forAsahi Linux and game console hacking
Websitemarcan.st

Hector Martin Cantero (born September 9, 1990), also known as marcan, is a Spanish security hacker and current lead developer on the Asahi Linux project.[1] He is also known for hacking multiple PlayStation generations, the Wii and other devices.[2]

Biography

Education

Martin went to the American School of Bilbao (Spain), where he received his primary and secondary education.[3]

Career

Since 2011, he has been an official staff volunteer at Euskal Encounter, Gipuzkoa Encounter and Araba Encounter LAN parties. He is the coordinator of the Free Software area, where he organizes the "Hack It / Solve It" competition (a cybersecurity challenge known as capture the flag) and the "AI Contest" competition.[4][non-primary source needed]

He has been part of fail0verflow, (formerly known as Team Twiizers) where he was responsible for reverse engineering and hacking the Wii.[5] He was the first to write an open source driver for the Microsoft Kinect[6][7] by reverse engineering[8] for which he was widely credited.[9][10] Sony sued him and others for hacking the PlayStation 3; the case was eventually settled out of court.[11][12] In 2016, he ported Linux to the PlayStation 4 and demonstrated that at the 33rd Chaos Communication Congress by running Steam inside Linux.[13] He wrote the usbmuxd tool for synchronizing data from iPhones to Linux computers.[14]

In 2021, Martin founded the Asahi Linux project, an effort to port Linux to the new Apple silicon-powered Macs. He currently remains the lead developer on the project.[15][16] While reverse engineering Apple's hardware, Martin discovered the "M1racles" security vulnerability on the Apple M1 processor.[17][18]

See also

References

  1. ^ Sharwood, Simon (21 March 2022). "Asahi Linux reaches 'very early Alpha'". The Register. Retrieved 17 May 2022. Asahi Linux – the most prominent effort to create a Linux distribution for Apple's M1 silicon – has loosed what project lead Hector Martin has described as 'a very early alpha release.'
  2. ^ Goodin, Dan (2020-05-12). "Thunderspy: What it is, why it's not scary, and what to do about it". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on 2021-02-26. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  3. ^ Chegue. "Entrevista a Hector Martín, el castreño que abrió las tripas del Xbox 360 Kinect". www.muchocastro.com (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 2021-04-27. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  4. ^ "Euskal Encounter". marcan.st. Archived from the original on 2022-09-07. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  5. ^ "Wii Hacker: Leaked Source Code for Nintendo Gaming Systems Is 'Nonsense'". PCMag. Archived from the original on 2020-05-06. Retrieved 2021-04-24.
  6. ^ Martín, Javier (2010-11-11). "'Me gusta trastear'". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Archived from the original on 2021-04-27. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  7. ^ Giles, Jim (2010-12-04). "Inside the race to hack the Kinect". New Scientist. 208 (2789): 22–23. doi:10.1016/S0262-4079(10)62989-2. ISSN 0262-4079. Archived from the original on 2021-04-27. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  8. ^ "Un español consigue abrir a PC el código de Kinect en sólo dos horas". MeriStation (in Spanish). 2015-02-05. Archived from the original on 2021-04-27. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  9. ^ Hacking the Kinect. Jeff Kramer. Apress. 2012. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-4302-3868-3. OCLC 795985020. Archived from the original on 2021-08-01. Retrieved 2021-04-24.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  10. ^ "Hacker wins $3,000 for first open source Microsoft Kinect driver - Update - The H Open: News and Features". H-online. Archived from the original on 2021-04-25. Retrieved 2021-04-24.
  11. ^ Hachman, Mark (2011-01-12). "Sony Sues PS3 Hackers". PCMag India. Archived from the original on 2021-04-27. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  12. ^ "Sony/Hotz settlement details surface". GameSpot. Archived from the original on 2021-07-27. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  13. ^ "Konsolen-Hacking auf dem 33C3 - Hacker startet Steam auf Playstation 4". GameStar (in German). 2016-12-28. Archived from the original on 2021-04-27. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  14. ^ Chan, Rosalie. "'It honestly killed the project': Former Google employees speak out about a policy that lets the company claim ownership over code they write for outside projects". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 2020-02-17. Retrieved 2021-04-24.
  15. ^ Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J. "What must be done to bring Linux to the Apple M1 chip". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 2021-01-27. Retrieved 2021-04-24.
  16. ^ Salter, Jim (2021-04-09). "Apple M1 hardware support merged into Linux 5.13". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on 2021-04-27. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  17. ^ Mott, Nathaniel (2021-05-26). "Asahi Linux Dev Reveals 'M1RACLES' Flaw in Apple M1, Pokes Fun at Similar Flaws". Tom's Hardware. Archived from the original on 2021-08-01. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
  18. ^ Goodin, Dan (2021-05-28). "Covert channel in Apple's M1 is mostly harmless, but it sure is interesting". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on 2021-07-27. Retrieved 2021-07-27.