Genocide2600
| Formation | 1985 |
|---|---|
| Dissolved | 2009 |
| Purpose | Hacking |
| Location | |
Founders | Travis Ogden |
| Website | www.genocide2600.com |
Genocide2600 was a hacker group or collective which was active from the 1980s into early 2000. The group's name was explained as a statement designed to show people that they had become desensitized to being shocked by the horrors seen throughout the world such as murder and other atrocities. It was the hope of the founder "Genocide" that the very name or word Genocide would cause people to flinch or experience some sort of revulsion and therefore, wake up a little.
History[edit]
The Genocide2600 Group's origin started in approximately 1987 with the group taking part in telephone phreaking, writing and rewriting methodologies for taking advantage of telephony systems and then trading such information on bulletin board systems. The group diversified and became involved with what is now known as social engineering in the early 1990s and then formally computer hacking in the mid-1990s. Because of the varied schools of thought that members of The Genocide2600 Group took part in, the publications that were released by its members are found to be quite scattered in their subject material.
The group gained notoriety by focusing the varied talents of its members to combat child pornography on sites such as AOL.[1] Several members of The Genocide2600 Group joined with a number of other hackers in the mid-1990s (including RSnake and Revelation) interested in the combat of Internet Child Pornography and formed the group "EHAP" or Ethical Hackers Against Pedophilia[2][3][4][5] where they worked with various law enforcement agencies to combat child pornography.
Aside from the battle with child pornography, the Genocide2600 group also supported various ideas and software applications including Snort and Packetstorm by hosting the sites in their infancy. The Genocide2600 group at one point could no longer host Packetstorm as the server was physically relocating across the country, and due to the popularity of the site, it had to be temporarily moved. Tattooman[6] managed to find a home for it on Harvard's servers resulting in a huge "Hacker Crossfire".[7][8] Later, the site was purchased and brought up on "Kroll-O'Gara".[9]
Members[edit]
As of 2011 exactly what has happened to all of the members of The Genocide2600 Group is not known. Those members still in contact or desiring to be public include: Travis Ogden "Genocide",[10][11][12] William Marquette "Doxavg",[11] Ken Williams "Tattooman",[6][7][8][9] Jim Forster "The Weasel",[13][14] Andrew Schlotfeldt "Astroboy",[11] Alex Richardson "Overlord",[11] Joe Aronow "Godpunk" and Cody Ogden "Wizdom".[11]
Other members included (legal names withheld): Stranger, Loki, Dequeue, Speedygrl, Spikeman,[6] S7urm, Bernz,[15] Revelation, P4nd0r4, Jigz, Alexu, Mantis.[16]
References[edit]
- ^ Dan Verton (2002). "Chapter 1". The Hacker Diaries. McGraw-Hill / Osborne. p. 21. ISBN 9780072223644. Retrieved 10 Jan 2011.
- ^ Donna M. Hughes (1999). "Pimps and Predators on the Internet". Coalition Against Trafficking in Women. Retrieved 10 Jan 2011.
- ^ Courtney Macavinta (2 Feb 1998). "Hacker group battles child porn". Cnet.com. Retrieved 10 Jan 2011.
- ^ Deborah Radcliff (18 Aug 1998). "Hacking away at kiddie porn". CNN.com. p. 2,3. Retrieved 10 Jan 2011.
- ^ RSnake (31 Jan 1998). "Happy Hacker Digest". Ethical Hackers against Pedophilia: happyhacker.org. Retrieved 10 Jan 2011.
- ^ a b c Cruciphux (8 May 1999). "HWA.hax0r.news ... #17". affiliate members: Cubesoft communications. Retrieved 10 Jan 2011.
- ^ a b Robert Lemos (2 Jul 1999). "Harvard caught in hacker crossfire". ZDNet.com. Retrieved 10 Jan 2011.
- ^ a b Ken Williams (1 Jul 1999). "Email to 'The Usual Suspects'". Attrition.org. Retrieved 10 Jan 2011.
- ^ a b Hemos (17 Aug 1999). "Packet Storm Security is back". slashdot.org. Retrieved 10 Jan 2011.
- ^ Dan Verton (2002). "Chapter 1". The Hacker Diaries. McGraw-Hill / Osborne. pp. 1–26. ISBN 9780072223644. Retrieved 10 Jan 2011.
- ^ a b c d e David S. Bennahum (18 Apr 1997). "The Cybernetic Education of a Hacker: the Genocide2600 story". memex.org. Retrieved 10 Jan 2011.
- ^ Dan Verton (18 July 2002). "Hackers to corporate America: You're lazy". ComputerWorld.com. pp. 1–3. Retrieved 10 Jan 2011.
- ^ "Latest Virus Incidents Report". Panda Security. 5 Nov 1999. Retrieved 11 Jan 2011.
- ^ "Virus.DOS.Taz.987". Securelist.com. 1 Dec 2000. Retrieved 11 Jan 2011.
- ^ Sarah Granger (18 Dec 2001). "Social Engineering Fundamentals, Part I: Hacker Tactics". Definitions, Persuasion, References: Symantec.com. p. 1. Retrieved 10 Jan 2011.
- ^ Lappe, Anthony (14 June 1998). "New York Hackers See Breaking Into Computers as a Healthy Thing". The New York Times. Mantis Skips School. Retrieved 10 Jan 2011.