--- title: "4 Jon Johansen Quotes - (America's Cup trivia)" description: "Jon Lech Johansen, also known as DVD Jon, is a Norwegian programmer who has worked on reverse engineering data formats. He wrote the DeCSS software, whi..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-jon-johansen-52748.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Jon Johansen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-jon-johansen-52748.jpg) # Jon Johansen (1910) **4** quotes in **42** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Jon Lech Johansen, also known as DVD Jon, is a Norwegian programmer who has worked on reverse engineering data formats. He wrote the DeCSS software, which decodes the Content Scramble System used for DVD licensing enforcement. ## Quick Facts About Jon Johansen Born September 27, 1910 Notable works America's Cup trivia ## About Jon Johansen Jon Lech Johansen, also known as DVD Jon, is a Norwegian programmer who has worked on reverse engineering data formats. 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. Johansen moved back to the United States in June, 2007. ## Quotes by Jon Johansen > [Well, the biggest Norwegian newspaper regarded this as an arrest, since they hadn't told us that they were coming and they brought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-johansen/well-the-biggest-norwegian-newspaper-regarded-this-as-an-arrest-since/) Jon Johansen [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93f/jon-johansen-67038_arrest_well-the-biggest-norwegian-newspaper-reg_486822.jpg) > [I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay Chat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-johansen/i-don-t-have-the-identity-of-any-of-them-i-only-had-the-nicks-that/) Jon Johansen [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d59/jon-johansen-67038_any_i-don-t-have-the-identity-of-any-of-them_1181835.jpg) > [We knew that they would probably go after someone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-johansen/we-knew-that-they-would-probably-go-after-someone/) Jon Johansen [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/082/jon-johansen-67038_after_we-knew-that-they-would-probably-go-afte_2366602.jpg) > [I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-johansen/i-m-16-now-i-was-15-when-it-happened-and-the-encryption-code-wasn-t/) Jon Johansen [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98f/jon-johansen-67038_about_i-m-16-now-i-was-15-when-it-happened-and_2631999.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-johansen/#itemlist", "name": "Jon Johansen Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Well, the biggest Norwegian newspaper regarded this as an arrest, since they hadn't told us that they were coming and they brought me in. 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