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Lewis De Payne

IRL Name: 
Lew Payne
Biography: 

'Lew Payne' -Friend to Kevin Mitnick since the late 70s. Together they explored and manipulated the telephone network as Los Angeles' most notorious phone phreaks.

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Dead Lord, Sharp Razor, Executive Hacker, Galactic Knight

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Bruce Fancher
Biography: 

Bruce was a member of the legendary Legion of Doom hacker group and co-founded MindVox in 1991, with Patrick K. Kroupa. Bruce Fancher grew up in New York City.Much like Patrick Kroupa and many of his compatriots from the Legion of Doom, Bruce Fancher was part of the first generation to grow up with access to home computers and the networks that pre-dated the wide-scale adaptation of what became known as the internet. Unlike most others, Fancher seems to have met most of the people who played major roles in his formative years, in person, at the YIPL/TAP meetings that were taking place on the Lower East Side of New York City. Almost from the start, Fancher's peers were some of the smartest and most accomplished hackers and phone phreaks of the day.

The hacker underground didn't care how many years you had spent online, the only prerequisite for acceptance, was being highly intelligent. Fancher fit right in and adapted and refined the cynical and jaded attitude that many of the LOD members had arrived at, and used his newfound skills to wreak havoc and play games with the so-called "Elite" of the time.

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Bronc Buster

IRL Name: 
Bronc Buster
Biography: 

California computer science student. "Hacktivist" Bronc and his partner, "Zyklon," cracked the Chinese network and defaced a government-run Web site.

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Jericho, Disorder, Cult Hero, Security Curmudgeon

IRL Name: 
Brian Martin
Biography: 

Jericho is known for his work behind attrition.org, an online resource famous for cataloguing defaced Web sites and security vulnerabilities. He currently lives with cats and works as a freelance security consultant. He also is known for running the charlatans section on attrition.org, doing quite a good job of exposing fakes in the hacking scene and security industry.

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Terminus

IRL Name: 
Len Rose
Biography: 

Terminus, also known as Terminal Technician, was a well-known freelance Phrack writer who was raided and arrested by the U.S. Secret Service in February 1990 for an article he wrote explaining how trojan horses worked and leaking AT&T SVR3.2 "login.c" source code. Prior to his arrest, he was known as a Unix consultant who ran his own system on UUCP called Netsys. Terminus was also a co-founder of the Full Disclosure Mailing List.

Since his arrest, Len Rose has gone on to work for many companies as a Senior Systems Engineer.

Currently, Len is listed as a "Principal Security Architect" at a company in New Mexico.

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Kevin Poulsen, Dark Dante

IRL Name: 
Kevin Lee Poulsen
Biography: 

Before segueing into journalism, he had a notorious career in the 1980s as a cracker whose handle was Dark Dante. He worked for SRI International by day, and hacked at night. During this time, Poulsen taught himself lock picking, and engaged in a brash spree of high-tech stunts that would ultimately make him one of America's best-known cyber-criminals. Among other things, Poulsen reactivated old Yellow Page escort telephone numbers for an acquaintance that then ran a virtual escort agency.

His best-appreciated hack was a takeover of all of the telephone lines for Los Angeles radio station KIIS-FM, guaranteeing that he would be the 102nd caller, and netting him a Porsche 944 S2.

When the FBI started pursuing Poulsen, he went underground as a fugitive. When he was featured on NBC's Unsolved Mysteries, the show's 1-800 telephone lines mysteriously crashed.

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Kevin Mitnick, Condor

IRL Name: 
Kevin David Mitnick
Biography: 

Kevin David Mitnick (born August 6, 1963 - died July 16, 2023) is a computer security consultant and convicted criminal who was a very controversial computer hacker in the U.S - mainly because of sensationalized stories by John Markoff. He was last busted in late 1990s for gaining access to computer networks, stealing intellectual property and possession of several forged identification documents.

Everybody knows his punishment was excessive - so stop emailing us about it!

Art of Deception, Mitnick's book, he states that he compromised computers solely by using passwords and codes that he gained by social engineering.

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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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Agent Steal

IRL Name: 
Justin Tanner Petersen
Biography: 

Hacker that was part of a group consisting of himself, Kevin Poulsen, and Ron Austin. Turned informant and worked for the FBI. He got his handle when he was first being investigated by case agent Special Agent Steele. Was arrested for credit card fraud, and breaking & entering.
Was caught on August 1994. He was only living around the corner from the FBI.

He died in early March 2010 in his apartment in LA.

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Outlaw

IRL Name: 
Julio Fernandez
Biography: 

Stated as a member of the Masters of Deception and faced criminal/federal charges in a case that was called one of the most extensive thefts of computer information ever reported.

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