Mudge name handle does rings a bell and the main reason is that he was featured and interviewed in the arguably the most famous 49th issue of Phrack magazine containing the popular article "Smashing The Stack For Fun and Profit"[1]. In term of popularity this article is at least as popular in computer security circle in term of its profound effect as Dijkstra's seminal paper on "Go To Statement Is Considered Harmful" in computer science community.
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I wouldn't call that a "seminal paper". However, "Smashing The Stack For Fun and Profit" joins a couple of classic papers such as "The Geometry of Innocent Flesh on the Bone: Return-into-libc without Function Calls (on x86)" (ROP) and the Spectre/Meltdown papers as being fundamental to application security.
Just checked his wiki. Even blue chip CEOs are not as well dressed as he is.