Chris Goggans (also known as Erik Bloodaxe in honor of the Viking king Eric I of Norway), is an American hacker, founding member of the Legion of Doom group, and a former editor of Phrack magazine. He is known as an expert in security, as well as for his statements on hacker ethic and responsibility. Career history Around 1990-1991 Goggans and other Legion members set up a computer security firm, Comsec, which went out of business by 1992. He later became a senior network security engineer for WheelGroup, a network security group. In closing remarks at a 1995 conference, Goggans remarked that the global hacker community was disorganized and uncoordinated, suggesting that they should focus an attack on some foreign country, such as France. , Goggans is an recognized expert on information security. He has performed network security assessments for some of the world's largest corporations, including all facets of critical infrastructure, with work spanning 22 countries across four continents. Groggans has worked with US Federal law-enforcement agencies on notorious computer crime cases. His work has been referenced in publications such as Time, Newsweek and Computerworld, and on networks such as CNN and CNBC. Groggans has been asked to present at major conferences as COMDEX, CSI, ISACA, and the Black Hat Briefings, as well as having also co-authored numerous books including Implementing Internet Security, Internet Security Professional Reference, Windows NT Security, and The Complete Internet Business Toolkit. During the summer of 2003, Goggans was invited to become an associate professor at the University of Tokyo's Center for Collaborative Research.. In the winter of 2008, Chris Goggans was in India for the ClubHack hacker convention. Currently, Goggans is president of SDI, Inc., a Virginia-based corporation providing information security consulting. Issues with law enforcement Goggans was raided by the US Secret Service on March 1, 1990, but was not charged. In a 1994 interview he claimed he had never engaged in malicious hacking, explaining: "Malicious hacking pretty much stands against everything that I adhere to. You always hear people talking about this so called hacker ethic and I really do believe that. I would never wipe anything out. I would never take a system down and delete anything off of a system. Any time I was ever in a system, I'd look around the system, I'd see how the system was architectured, see how the directory structures differed from different types of