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Ghent

IRL Name: 
Branden Hancock
Biography: 

Worked for the Dailey Trojan magazine.
Defcon Goon and staff member.
Passed away at age 26, October 26, 2003 due to injuries sustained from a motorcycle accident.

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Tron

IRL Name: 
Boris Floricic
Biography: 

German hacker and phreaker whose death in unclear circumstances has led to various conspiracy theories. Known for his diploma thesis presenting one of the first public use of a telephone with built-in voice encryption, the "Cryptophon".

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(hacker)

Ben Stark

IRL Name: 
Ben Stark
Biography: 

Part of a group nicknamed the "Deceptive Dou"

Drew public attention in April 2002 for cracking government websites and defacing them with a patriotic "mission outline" in which they described themselves as anonymous US citizens determined to save the country from cyberterrorists by exposing security holes in critical infrastructures.
(Damn this sounds like a movie ;p )

"Tighten the security before a foreign attack forces you to," the Duo's defacements typically read. "At a time like this, we cannot risk the possibility of compromise by a foreign enemy." Accompanying the text was the group's logo: two handguns against the backdrop of a tattered American flag.
(COUGH ...COUGH.. SNEEZE FIRESAIL)

Defaced a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) server and posted samples from an FAA database detailing passenger screening activity at various U.S. airports with each screener's name, the number of passengers he or she screened, and the number of guns, explosives or chemicals intercepted.
At the time, the FAA downplayed the sensitivity of the database, claiming that it had been prepared for Congress, and was therefore public information. But in the charges filed against Stark, prosecutors describe the list as a "sensitive database".

Defacement of a US Army Corp of Engineers' website under Stark's pre-Deceptive Duo moniker, "The-Rev".

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Julio Cesar Ardita

IRL Name: 
Julio Cesar Ardita
Biography: 

Ardita was charged by the U.S. Justice Department with using compromised user accounts at Harvard University to hack into government and university computer systems in the U.S. and abroad. Ardita pled guilty on May 19, 1998 in the United States District Court of Massachusetts to unlawfully intercepting electronic communications and damaging files on military computer systems.

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Juju Jiang

IRL Name: 
Juju Jiang
Biography: 

Juju Jiang was known for installing keyloggers on Kinko's customer internet terminals.

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c0mrade

IRL Name: 
Jonathan James
Biography: 

Jonathan James (b. December 12, 1983), a.k.a. "c0mrade", is an American hacker who was the first juvenile incarcerated for cybercrime in the United States. The South Florida native was 15 years old at the time of the first offense and 16 years old on the date of his sentencing. Between August 23, 1999, and October 27, 1999, James committed a series of intrusions into various systems, including those of BellSouth and the Miami-Dade school system. What brought him to the attention of federal authorities, however, was his intrusion into the computers of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, a division of the United States Department of Defense, the primary function of which is to analyze potential threats to the United States of America, both at home and abroad.

Jonathan James, 24, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his home on May 18, 2008, less than two weeks after agents raided his house in connection with a hacking ring that penetrated TJX, DSW and OfficeMax, among others. In a five page suicide note, James wrote that he was innocent, but was certain federal officials would make him a scapegoat.

“I have no faith in the ‘justice’ system,” he wrote. ” Perhaps my actions today, and this letter, will send a stronger message to the public. Either way, I have lost control over this situation, and this is my only way to regain control.”

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Acidstorm

IRL Name: 
John Kenneth Schiefer
Biography: 

John Schniefer aka (AcidStorm) is a 26 year old Los-Angeles based information security specialist. He was employed at a security firm known as 3G Communications. He and several accomplices developed malware they dubbed "spybot" that made vulnerable Windows machines part of a botnet. He admitted to creating a the botnet on Friday, November 9, 200. He used this botnet to illegally install software on at least 250,000 machines and steal online banking identities of Windows users by eavesdropping on them while they made financial transactions. They controlled the zombies using servers from various hosting companies. He faces a maximum sentence of 60 years in prison and a fine of $1.75 million. This is the first case that has been related to botnets has been charged under US wiretap statutes.

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Corrupt, Netw1z

IRL Name: 
John Lee aka John Threat
Biography: 

John Lee, a.k.a. John Threat used the name “Corrupt” as a member of Masters of Deception (MOD), a New York based hacker group in the early 90’s.

As a result of his participation in the Great Hacker War, between MOD and rival hacker group Legion of Doom, he was indicted on federal wiretapping charges in 1992. He pled guilty and was sentenced to one year at a federal detention center. His participation in the Great Hacker War landed him on the cover of Wired Magazine in 1994.

Lee was born on July 6, 1971 in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in Brownsville, where he was a member of the Decepticons, a Brooklyn-based street gang formed in the early 80s, named after the villains in the Saturday morning cartoon, Transformers. Lee attended Stuyvesant High School and went on to New York University. During his freshman year at NYU, Lee was sentenced to prison for his role in the Great Hacker War.

Lee went on to graduate from Brooklyn College with a degree in Film Studies and Physics in 1996. After college, Lee was a consultant for Comedy Central and 60 Minutes. Lee also gained notoriety in 2001 when he revealed himself as the anonymous editor of UrbanExpose.com, a controversial entertainment gossip website.

Lee also has editing, producing, and directing credits in film and television. In 2004 he founded Mediathreat, LLC, a film production company. In 2005, he directed the original documentary “Dead Prez: Bigger than Hip Hop.”

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VeNoMouS

IRL Name: 
Jodi Jones
Biography: 

A hacker convicted of breaking into an internet service has been linked to the penetration of an Indian nuclear weapons facility. Jodi Jones, also known as VeNoMouS, pleaded guilty to wilful damage in the Manukau District Court after hacking into Web Internet's network.

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Lucky225, Lucky

IRL Name: 
Jered Morgan
Biography: 

Lucky225 (also known as Jered Morgan, born 1983) is a Southern California phone phreak. He is most known for his Social Engineering abilities, co-hosting internet radio show Default Radio and exploration and knowledge of Caller ID spoofing, CPN, and ANI.

Lucky225 has been published several times in 2600 Magazine, Von Magazine, and other circulars. He's been mentioned in Wired and on CNN.

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