Hacker

Hacker
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Examples

Page name	Description
'BillCaseyHoneyPot'	Pseudonymous commenter to Cryptome from 2010-2015.
'Anonymous'
'Open Hands'	Hacking group which published documents of David Barnea
Jacob Applebaum	A Tor developer.
Julian Assange	A "hacktivist" of mysterious background, whose website, Wikileaks, has been the conduit for a lot of whistleblowing. His pronounced disinterest in 9/11 is particularly notable.
Volker Birk	Operates the the website fdik.org, which published the leaked Integrity Initiative documents
Vint Cerf	A father of the internet as part of military research. Later evangelist for Google.
Matt DeHart	US hacker who claimed to have received documents about the CIA's role in the 2001 Anthrax attacks. Later arrested for child pornography.
Roger Dingledine	Co-founded the Tor Project
James Dolan	A hacker who was connected to Aaron Swartz and who like Swartz, died by suicide. Some question the circumstances.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a>
Matt Edman
Boris Floricic	German hacker/phreaker with strong interest in cryptography found dead in a park. Ruled a suicide.
John Gilmore	One of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Guccifer	Romanian hacker who gained access to e-mail accounts of US government officials and their family members.
Ciaran Gultnieks	Founded F-Droid
Jeremy Hammond	US hacker who was convicted to 10 years jail for hacking Stratfor and passing some of their data to Wikileaks. It soon was revealed he had been given the information necessary for the hack from an FBI informant.
Greg Hoglund
Barnaby Jack	Hacker who died before he could give a presentation on how to hack pacemakers.
Arjen Kamphuis	Dutch IT-expert with a Wikileaks connection. He disappeared during a trip in Norway in 2018.
Vincent Kaufman	IT guy who uploaded 450 GB of Hunter Bidens data.
Adrian Lamo	American hacker who committed "suicide" in 2018.
Gary McKinnon
Jeff Moss	Founder of the Black Hat & DEF CON computer Hacker conferences
Ian Murdock	Alpha hacker died in unclear circumstances aged 42
Nikolai Mushegian	Cryptocurrency developer found dead after tweeting "CIA and Mossad and pedo elite are running some kind of sex trafficking entrapment blackmail ring out of Puerto Rico and caribbean islands. They are going to frame me with a laptop planted by my ex gf who was a spy. They will torture me to death."
Andy Müller-Maguhn	Digital and Human Rights activist
Erik van Sabben	Engineer-recruited-spook that was responsible for installing Stuxnet in Iranian nuclear facilities. Found death 2 weeks later in a "motorcycle accident"
Shadow Brokers
Richard Stallman	US activist hacker whose work who started GNU which led to Linux
Aaron Swartz	A hacker who died a suspicious death after using his talents to promote freedom of information
The Dark Overlord	an international hacker group
Peiter Zatko
Ilya Zhitomirskiy	Russian hacker who co-developed Diaspora, a distributed social network which was marketed as a Facebook killer. Officially a suicide.

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Hacker Generations	article	23 August 2011	Richard Thieme	On the origins and real meaning of "Hacker"; a term which, in company with "conspiracy-theory", "Holocaust-denial" and many others has been co-opted/invented by Establishments to marginalise research deemed most threatening to the Official Narratives that define "Consensus trance" reality.

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