Michael A Schmidt is the primary security contact within Sophos Data Protection Group (DPG) software development. He has been with Utimaco (the predecessor of the DPG) development for many years, filling various development- and security-related positions. Currently, he is harassing the other developers in the group with the promotion of a security-oriented software development process. Even more, Michael is forming a group of conspirators within Sophos to run a world-wide, 'Distributed Promotion of Secure Coding' attack.