Charles Edge (computer scientist)


Charles Edge was an American computer scientist, author, podcaster, and a contributing author for Inc.com and Huffington Post.
Edge spent 15 years as the Chief Technology Officer of 318 Inc in Santa Monica and 5 years at Jamf. At the time of his death, he was the Chief Technology Officer of Bootstrappers.mn and HandrailUX. Edge spoke at Defcon, Blackhat, LinuxWorld, MacSysAdmin, and a number of other conferences.
Edge died on April 19, 2024.

Podcasts

Edge maintained the following podcasts:
  • MacAdmins Podcast https://podcast.macadmins.org
  • Jamf After Dark Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jamf-after-dark/id1434572611
  • The History Of Computing http://thehistoryofcomputing.net

Community work

Edge worked on a number of open source projects including precache, swift-ldif-csv, and jssimporter and served on the board of directors of Tamarisk and on the corporate council of the Guthrie Theater.
Edge spoke at Black Hat 2007 and was scheduled to give a speech on a vulnerability of the Mac OS X FileVault at Black Hat 2008 but the talk was pulled after he cited a non-disclosure agreement the talk would violate. The talk was later disputed having ever existed.
Edge wrote the SANS course on Mac OS X Security in 2007, establishing baseline security practices for Apple and IoT devices in large-scale environments.
Edge founded the Minnesota non-profit Minnesota Computer History Museum in January 2020.

Editor

Edge was on the Editorial team for the Apple Inc. platform, with Apress. Edge was also the technical editor for the following title: