Jean-Bernard Condat (born 1963) is a French computer security expert and former
hacker
A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who uses their technical knowledge to achieve a goal or overcome an obstacle, within a computerized system by non-standard means. Though the term ''hacker'' has become associated in popu ...
who became a consultant to the
Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DST).
Using the name ''concombre'' (English: cucumber), he achieved status as one of the best-known French hackers in the 1990s.
Biography
Condat was born in 1963 in
Béziers
Béziers (; oc, Besièrs) is a Subprefectures in France, subprefecture of the Hérault Departments of France, department in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie Regions of France, region of Southern France. Every August Béziers hos ...
,
Hérault
Hérault (; oc, Erau, ) is a department of the region of Occitania, Southern France. Named after the Hérault River, its prefecture is Montpellier. It had a population of 1,175,623 in 2019.[baccalauréat
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at age 16 before attending the
University of Lyon
The University of Lyon (french: Université de Lyon), located in Lyon and Saint-Étienne, France, is a center for higher education and research comprising 11 members and 24 associated institutions. The three main universities in this center are: ...
to study
musicology
Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...
, earning his
deug.
Chaos Computer Club, France
It was around 1982 that Condat joined the
Directorate of Territorial Surveillance,
an
intelligence agency
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within the
French National Police
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, who planted him in strategic positions, such as a
sysop
A sysop (; an abbreviation of system operator) is an administrator of a multi-user computer system, such as a bulletin board system (BBS) or an online service virtual community.Jansen, E. & James,V. (2002). NetLingo: the Internet dictionary. Netl ...
for
CompuServe
CompuServe (CompuServe Information Service, also known by its initialism CIS) was an American online service provider, the first major commercial one in the world – described in 1994 as "the oldest of the Big Three information services (the oth ...
. In 1989, he, under instruction from the DST and agent Jean-Luc Delacour, created the Chaos Computer Club France, a fake hacker group posing as a national offshoot of the
Chaos Computer Club
The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) is Europe's largest association of hackers with 7,700 registered members. Founded in 1981, the association is incorporated as an ''eingetragener Verein'' in Germany, with local chapters (called ''Erfa-Kreise'') in ...
, with the purpose of investigating and surveilling the French hacker community. The group would also work with the
National Gendarmarie.
''LE FBI RECRUTE LES PIRATES DU NET POUR TRAQUER BEN LADEN''
Marianne, Anne-Sophie Yoo, 2001-10-29 The CCCF had an electronic magazine called '' Chaos Digest'' (''ChaosD''). Between 4 January 1993 and 5 August 1993, seventy-three issues were published ().
Bibliography
*
See also
* Chaos Computer Club
The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) is Europe's largest association of hackers with 7,700 registered members. Founded in 1981, the association is incorporated as an ''eingetragener Verein'' in Germany, with local chapters (called ''Erfa-Kreise'') in ...
* List of hacker groups
This is a partial list of notable hacker groups.
* Anonymous, originating in 2003, Anonymous was created as a group for people who fought for the right to privacy.
* Bangladesh Black Hat Hackers, founded in 2012.
* Cozy Bear, a Russian hacker ...
References
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1963 births
People from Béziers
Living people
French computer programmers
Hacking in the 1990s
Hacking (computer security)