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Jon Lech Johansen, a Common card
Jon Lech Johansen, also known as DVD Jon, is a Norwegian programmer who has worked on reverse engineering data formats.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 52
- Power
- 115
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 12,000
Power 115 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He wrote the DeCSS software, which decodes the Content Scramble System used for DVD licensing enforcement.
- Johansen is a self-trained software engineer, who quit high school during his first year to spend more time with the DeCSS case.
- He moved to the United States and worked as a software engineer for about a year, from October 2005 until November 2006, whereupon he returned to Norway.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Jon Lech Johansen article was read about 12,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 52: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
How to get Jon Lech Johansen
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- Mariama BâCommon · Arts · ATK 70 DEF 45
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Jon Lech Johansen (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : de:Cory Doctorow, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
