Meet the internet pioneer who declared war on spam and is helping AWS prepare for AI cyber threats

When, in his job as a programmer in the mid-1980s, Vixie encountered the main implementation of DNS (known as the Berkeley Internet Name Domain, or BIND), it had been abandoned. "It was just sitting there, so I grabbed the code and started fixing it." After mentioning what he was working on to someone, they asked for a copy. He obliged and began regularly publishing copies so anyone could use it. "I soon received a long list of feature requests, bug reports, and all kinds of other things," he said.