Mike Lindner is a professional Linux Systems Administrator and Certified Ethical Hacker who has been programming, building, breaking and fixing computers his entire life. From playing with mainframes at his dad's office in the 1970s, discovering as a little kid what “10 goto 10” did to big iron of the era (not pretty), to the 80s teenage hacker thing, bulletin boards and wardialing with acoustic modem and green screen monitor, to now working for companies such as Boeing, Telstra, IBM and HP, advising on Linux systems and security.

He first wrote for a local user group newsletter with a circulation of some ten thousand during high school in the 80s becoming editor at age 15. Now days most of his writing is internal documentation for clients, apart from his blog he's sure no-one reads, this is his first full book for public consumption.

He lives in Melbourne Australia, obsessed with food, the local music scene, and RM Williams boots.