Anne Wojcicki va Linda Avey.

Dan Kaminsky

Chuyen vien bao mat hien dang lam IOActive nay dot ngot duoc gioi truyen thong quan tam sau khi phat hien ra loi DNS nghiem trong "co tu thoi khoi thuy cua Internet".

Tren Internet, ten mien de nho va dia chi IP dang so de may tinh hieu duoc cua cac website khong trung nhau. DNS (Domain name System) la he thong co trach nhiem huong dan trinh duyet web tu ten mien thong thuong tim toi duoc dia chi IP. Loi Kaminsky phat hien ra giup hacker can thiep vao qua trinh dan duong nay, khien nguoi dung bi am tham dua den cac website khac khong mong muon. Day la loi cuc ki nghiem trong, dien hinh nhu nan nhan co the bi "dat tay" toi cac website ngan hang gia mao, "tu nguyen" dua tai khoan ngan hang cho ke thu ac ma khong he hay biet.

Julian Assange

Ba la nguoi dong sang lap Wikileaks.org, website chuyen dang tai thong tin, tai lieu noi bo bi ro ri tren khap the gioi. Vu "noi dinh dam" dau tien cua site "buon chuyen" nay la cac bang chung to cao tong thong Kenya Daniel arap Moi bon rut cua cai cua dat nuoc nghiem trong. Wikileaks noi tieng nho chinh sach dang tai moi thong tin co duoc, bat ke thong tin do gay tac hai den muc do nao, nhu cac van kien ve nha tu danh cho khung bo o Vinh Guatanamo cua Mi, ngan hang Cayman Island rua tien, hoac gan day nhat la vu ung vien pho tong thong Mi Sarah Palin bi hack mat tai khoan email.

Anne Wojcicki va Linda Avey

Chi voi phi 400 do la va mot mau nuoc bot, cong ty 23andMe cua hai nguoi se gui lai cho khach hang ban do DNA, cung binh luan ve suc khoe, hoac tham chi du lieu ve cac benh ve gen cua rieng ho.

Hang cong nghe sinh hoc cua hai nguoi "danh" vao phan nhay cam, rieng tu nhat cua moi con nguoi: bo gen. Ho tu tin ve vien canh mot the gioi moi, noi moi nguoi deu nam duoc thong tin DNA cua minh, de giai quyet nhung van de the gioi hom nay bat luc. Wojcicki con la vo cua Sergey Brin, dong sang lap hang tim kiem khong lo Google, nguoi tuyen bo co kha nang mac benh liet rung (Parkinson) nho ket qua dieu tra DNA cua... cong ty vo.

Charlie Miller

Chuyen gia bao mat tai Security Evaluators nay han la nguoi bi fan Apple cam ghét nhat do co chung minh san pham "qua tao" khong he bao mat hon cac doi thu khac tren thi truong. Thanh tich moi nhat cua ong la nguoi dau tien tan cong tu xa thanh cong vao "phao dai" iPhone vao he nam 2007, cung nhu la nguoi dau tien tim ra loi nghiem trong trong MacBook Air vao thang 3/2008 - loi chi mat... 2 phut de thuc thi.

Brad Fitzpatrick

Nha phat trien phan mem hien dang lam cho Google nay la bo nao cua du an OpenID, voi tham vong dung mot ten va mat khau duy nhat cho moi website toan Internet.

Du an cua Fitpatrick ve nen vien canh mot the gioi ao ma trong do tat ca nguoi dung ket noi voi nhau qua mot mang xa hoi khong lo, lien ket bang tai khoan OpenID. Nguoi dung se duoc chung thuc tai khoan qua cac nha cung cap dich vu deu thuoc loai "co tieng tam" nhu  AOL, BBC, Google, IBM, Microsoft, MySpace, Versigil, Yandex, Yahoo.

Jon Lech Johansen

Chang thanh nien Na Uy 27 tuoi voi biet danh "DVD Jon" nay la mot trong nhung nguoi dan dau "phong trao" be khoa phan mem quan ly noi dung so. Anh noi tieng tu nam 1999 khi tung ra DeCSS giup be khoa bao ve cac dia DVD thong dung bay gio, giai phong nguoi dung khoi gioi han khu vuc va gioi han sao chép phim. Johansen la dai dien cho phong trao thach thuc mo hinh kinh doanh so hien tai, von tap trung vao gioi han nguoi dung chia se nhung gi da mua duoc, hon la tim cach cung cap san pham da dang hon.

Sau khi suyt bi truy to vi phat tan DeCSS, Johansen con... tich cuc hon nua trong viec che ra cac phan mem be khoa, nhu phan mem be khoa nhac mua tu iTune Store cua Apple vao nam 2002, phan mem giup nguoi dung Linux xem phim bi Microsoft khoa ma chi chay tren Windows vao nam 2005 v.v.. Bat chap chi trich cua cac nha san xuat ve viec vi pham luat ban quyen, Johansen chi ra rang nguoi da mua san pham co toan quyen nhan ban, luu tru, trich xuat cho muc dich ca nhan nhung gi minh da so huu.