Peter Sommer (Hugo Cornwall)
Sommer’s early handbook and subsequent forensic work help document the transition from hobbyist computing and exploratory hacking to computer-security and digital-evidence practice.
Peter Sommer is a digital-forensics scholar, consultant, and author. Writing as Hugo Cornwall, he published The Hacker’s Handbook, an influential early guide to connected personal computing and computer security.
From early hacking to digital evidence
Sommer’s later work centers on digital evidence, forensic practice, and public policy. His career helps connect the early hacker literature of the 1980s with the professional development of computer security and digital forensics.
Timeline
- 1985Publishes The Hacker’s Handbook under the pseudonym Hugo Cornwall.
- 1985-1989The handbook appears in multiple editions.
- 2011Concludes service as a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, according to the Open Rights Group biography.
Peter Sommer (Hugo Cornwall)
- Type
- Person
- Era
- 1985-Present
- Known for
- The Hacker’s Handbook; Digital forensics; Computer-security consultancy
- Tags
- author, digital-forensics, computer-security, hacker-culture, books
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