Fravia
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Fravia is a pseudonym/handle for a European seeker who is probably best known for his web archive of reverse engineering techniques and papers. Mirrors of the old web site still exist, though Fravia has publically requested that they be removed in favor of his new web-searching-centric site.
He lead people from becoming 'crackers' to reversers, in the sense of software reverse engineering and as an ideology. He is strongly against advertisements, user-restrictions in software, and what he claimed to be needless software protectionism. Judging from his writings it can be concluded that he is well educated and interested in written history, language, and information theory.
His principal interests are now advanced web searching techniques, e.g. how to write your own search bots, how to "cut through the web" to your targets using special search strings (webbits) or how to find music pieces or images without even knowing their name.
External links
- Fravia's auto-biography (http://www.searchlores.org/whoiam.htm)
- Last known mirror of the original "reversing site" (http://woodmann.com/fravia/index.htm)
- "Please help me to close the old mirrors" notice (http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/true/461/)
- Fravia's "Powersearching" page (http://www.searchlores.org/main.htm)
- Fravia's "Webbits" page (http://www.searchlores.org/rabbits.htm)