Chaos Computer Club

Bernd Fix

IRL Name: 
Bernd Fix
Biography: 

Bernd Fix (born 19 March 1962 in Wittingen, Lower Saxony) is a German hacker and computer security expert.

In 1986 Fix joined the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) in Hamburg and started to work on computer security issues, focussing on computer virus research.

From 1987 to 1989 Fix was one of the spokespersons for the Chaos Computer Club and author for the "Hacker Bible 2".

After the death of his friend Wau Holland (co-founder of the Chaos Computer Club) in 2001 Fix helped to establish the Wau Holland Foundation and serves as a founding member of the Board of Directors ever since.

According to Fix, when the Wau Holland Foundation started official operations in 2003, he and other founding members were in contact with Julian Assange and in 2009 they decided to support WikiLeaks. According to an interview from 2011, he got fired from his job at SIX Financial Information because of the foundation's support for WikiLeaks.

In July 2016, on the same day "Guccifer 2.0" sent Assange an encrypted 1 GB file containing stolen DNC emails, German hackers Andrew Müller-Maguhn and Bernd Fix met with Assange for at least four hours. Müller-Maguhn, the Wau Holland Foundation Vice President, is named in the Mueller report as a possible conduit for delivering hacked emails to Assange.According to The Washington Post, a former WikiLeaks associate said that year Müller-Maguhn and a colleague oversaw submissions to WikiLeaks server that year, which Müller-Maguhn denied. According to court documents, Müller-Maguhn and Bernd Fix were identified as priority targets of UC Global's spying.

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Wau Holland

IRL Name: 
Herwart Holland-Moritz
Biography: 

Herwart Holland-Moritz, aka Wau Holland, was born December 12, 1951 and died July 29, 2001 from complications caused by a brain stem stroke. He co-founded the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) in 1981, one of the world's oldest hacking clubs, as well as the CCC's hacker magazine Datenschleuder in 1984.

Holland fought against copy protection and censorship, and for an open information infrastructure. He compared the censorship demands by some governments to those of the Christian church in the Middle Ages and regarded copy protection as a product defect.

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Hagbard Celine

IRL Name: 
Karl Werner Lothar Koch
Biography: 

Born in Hanover, called himself "hagbard", after Hagbard Celine. He named his computer "FUCKUP".(there are more people who should do this, but oh well) Addicted to cocaine and became extremely paranoid (like Durandal). Convinced he was fighting the Illuminati like his fictional literary namesake. (occasionally tripping out of his mind)

Loosely affiliated with the CCC.
He worked with the hackers known as DOB (Dirk-Otto Brezinski), Pengo (Hans Heinrich Hübner), and Urmel (Markus Hess), and was involved in selling hacked information from US military computers to Russian KGB.

A German movie about his life, entitled 23, was released in 1998.

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Andy Müller-Maguhn

IRL Name: 
Andy Müller-Maguhn
Biography: 

Member of the German hacker association the Chaos Computer Club. In an election in autumn 2000, he was voted in as an at-large director of ICANN. In 2005 and 2006, Müller-Maguhn was involved on the side of the parents of the deceased hacker Boris Floricic, better known as Tron.

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