Stefan Schumacher is the president of the Magdeburg Institute for Security Research and editor of the Magdeburg Journal for Security Research.
He started his hacking career before the fall of the Berlin Wall on an East German computer with 1.75 MHz and a Datasette drive. He once was a NetBSD developer and has been involved in several Open Source projects and events.
He studied Educational Science and Psychology and does a lot of unique research about the psychology of security.