Jon Lech Johansen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jon Lech Johansen

Norwegian programmer, one of the three DeCSS developers

Date of Birth: 18-Nov-1983

Place of Birth: Harstad, Northern Norway, Norway

Profession: computer scientist, programmer, cryptographer

Nationality: Norway, Poland

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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Jon Lech Johansen (born November 18, 1983 in Harstad, Norway), also known as DVD Jon, is a Norwegian programmer who has worked on reverse engineering data formats. He wrote the DeCSS software, which decodes the Content Scramble System used for DVD licensing enforcement.
Johansen is a self-trained software engineer, who quit high school during his first year to spend more time with the DeCSS case.
He moved to the United States and worked as a software engineer from October 2005 until November 2006.
He then moved to Norway but moved back to the United States in June 2007.Johansen is featured in the documentary film Info Wars.