Bill Alderson
Zero-Day Researcher
Bill Alderson
Sub-Billionaire Tech Veteran
Bill Alderson, aka @Packetman007, is a cybersecurity pioneer with 40+ years thwarting digital threats. Vietnam-era Navy vet, he led Pentagon’s 9/11 communications recovery and built network defense at Security Institute through AI and deep packet inspection.
Trained 50K+ technologists in 27 countries on packet sniffing; certified 4K+ Network Security Forensic Professionals. Speaks at industry conferences like InfraGard. Former Network Computing Magazine columnist; created Interop sub-conferences on network forensics. From Network General's Sniffer startup to Technology Officer at NetQoS/CA Technologies, Bill teaches at Wireshark's SharkFest and holds two US Cybersecurity Patents in Hop Starvation Technology.
On Morpheus Cyber, with 69-year-old industry friends Jim Rounsville and Gus Stein (90+ years combined), Bill leads AI Advances and Robotics Realms—unpacking vibecoding, Atlas browser, and humanoid convergence.
Beyond fear, he translates PhD tech to cogent rules-of-thumb: "Quantum fidelity = drugs in months, not decades." Admires All-In billionaires—we're the sub-billionaires building America's tech edge.