Aniello Castiglione was born in Civitavecchia (Rome) and actually lives in Ischia, a small island in bay of Naples. He received the Laurea degree in Computer Science from the University of Salerno. From February 2006 he joins the Staff of the Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni "Renato M. Capocelli" as Network and Security manager. In November 2007 he takes the PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salerno under the supervision of Professor Alfredo De Santis.

He is a Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), of IEEE Computer Society, of IEEE Communications Society, and of GRIN (Gruppo di Informatica). He is a Fellow of FSF (Free Software Foundation), of FFII (Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure) and of FSFE (Free Software Foundation Europe). In November 2005 he joins the drafting process of the GPLv3 (GNU Public License version 3). On June 29,2007 the final version of the GPLv3 has been released :-) !!! For many years he has been involved in forensic investigations as consultant for several Law Enforcement Agencies. He has spent much in the open-source community and is a co-founder of the LuG-Ischia, the Linux User Group in Ischia.