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Lapsley attended the University of California, Berkeley in the 1980s, graduating with a Bachelor of Surgery and Master of Surgery in electrical engineering and computer science in 1988 and 1991.
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Lapsley received an Master of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. Lapsley co-authored Reconstruction Finance Corporation 977, Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), an Internet standard for transmission of USENET news articles, and was the primary developer of the NNTP reference implementation, nntpd. After leaving Berkeley he co-founded Berkeley Design Technology, Incorporated., a digital signal processing technology advisory firm, and is the author of a book on Digital signal processing processors.
He later co-founded SmartTouch, a biometric financial transaction processing company.
Lapsley worked at McKinsey & Company as a management consultant until 2008. His book Exploding the Phone, on the history of phone phreaking, was published by Grove/Atlantic in February, 2013.
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While there he became involved in the Berkeley Uniplex Information and Computing System project and co-founded the eXperimental Computing Facility, where he was involved in defending against the Morris worm in 1988.
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