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Grandmaster Ratte', Swamp Ratte', Swamp Rat

IRL Name: 
Kevin Wheeler
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One of the three founders of Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc), Grandmaster Ratte' is most famous for helping retards at hacker cons realize they will never be smart.

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Franken Gibe

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One of the 3 founding members of CDC.

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Drunkfux, dFx

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Jesse Dryden
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Was a member of Neon Knights and has been a member of cDc since February 1988.

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kuji

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Mathew Bevan
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Mathew Bevan is a British hacker from Cardiff, Wales. In 1996 he was arrested for hacking into secure US government networks under the handle Kuji. He was 21 when he hacked into the files of the Griffiss Air Force Base Research Laboratory in New York. Intent on proving a UFO Conspiracy Theory; his sole tool was a Commodore Amiga loaded with a blueboxing program called Roxbox.

He was one of two hackers said to have "nearly started a third world war" according to Supervisory Special Agent Jim Christy, at the time working for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations

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Torner

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Samir Rana
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Creator of Tornkit, a rootkit program that let a computer cracker take control of a compromised Linux computer without being detected

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Digerati

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Ryan Brett Goldstein
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Launched a distributed denial-of-service attack against the University of Pennsylvania.

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Ron Austin

IRL Name: 
Ron Austin
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Arrested for breaking into ARPANET. He was given three years of probation. Worked with the trio consisting of Kevin Poulsen, Justin Peterson, and himself.

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Mark Lottor, MKL

IRL Name: 
Mark K. Lottor
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Network Wizards is owned and operated by Mark K. Lottor. Mark worked at the DDN Network Information Center at SRI International as a systems programmer and assistant computer facility manager for 7 years, and has been working with Internet protocols and services since 1982. He was a member of the Internet Engineering Task Force for over 4 years, mostly involved with the Domain Name System working group, and has authored four Request For Comments documents. Mark produces the quarterly Internet Domain Survey, which counts the number of hosts on the Internet. Mark was also the founder of one of the first web hosting services on the net, Catalog.Com.

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Phiber Optik

IRL Name: 
Mark Abene
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Mark Abene (born 1972), better known by his pseudonym Phiber Optik, is a computer security hacker from New York City. Phiber Optik was once a member of the Hacker Groups Legion of Doom and Masters of Deception. In 1994, he served a one-year prison sentence for conspiracy and unauthorized access to computer and telephone systems.

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Loren Anderson

IRL Name: 
Loren Anderson
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Loren Anderson is the son of Clain Anderson who was IBM's director of client security. In 2003, Loren was accused of masterminding an identity-theft operation that was used to illegally withdraw over $100,000 cash from ATMs on Long Island.

As Loren was a minor during his case, not much information about him has been made public.

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nypost.com/2003/03/27/ibm-big-son-burned-scam-dad-heads-cyber-security/

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