---
title: "Norman Hardy"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Norman Hardy"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["confused deputy problem","capability-based security","Ann Hardy","Tymshare / Tymnet","credit misattribution"]
---


Computer scientist who named the "confused deputy problem" in a 1988 paper on capability-based security (KeyKOS), and who is, independently, the husband at the center of the Ann Hardy Tymshare credit-misattribution case. His own written history of Tymnet's origins (Computer History Museum, 2016) acknowledges Ann Hardy's operating-system work in his own words, unprompted and outside any interview about the misattribution itself — corroborating her side of that story from the one other named party it concerns.

## References
- [[claim-hardy-1988-named-confused-deputy-compiler-billing]]
- [[claim-ann-hardy-tymshare-os-miscredited-to-husband]]
- [[claim-norman-hardy-tymnet-account-confirms-ann-hardy-wrote-os]]
- Captures: 2026-07-09-hop-confused-deputy-ai-agents, 2026-07-22-verify-ann-hardys-authorship-of-the-tymshare-sds