Taylor Jacob is a hardware and software engineer currently living in Raleigh, NC. He has used linux since the early 90s when he downloaded it onto a stack of floppy disks at the public library. In the past he has worked as an RF engineer and presently is employed as an embedded linux engineer. Taylor has tinkered with a wide range of technology from BBSes, analog cellular, pay tv smartcards, mag stripes, to scanning the skies with a 10 foot C Band dish and SDR.