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HELLO NETRUNNERS!! This is your place of worship. Or at least it sure as hell is mine. This is where all notable or praiseworthy stories of the net are gathered. Some might be fictional, some might be from another world, and some might even be real... who knows? Anyways, stay on-line for more ;)


[THE SMILING HACKER]

The smiling hacker, alias BX1, was a hacker primarily active in the 2010s. Why smiling? we'll get to that later. For now, let's talk about his career. BX1 wrote a malware called SpyEye with the goal to enter bank accounts and then empty them. His motive for writing and using this malware was simple; charity. He was donating money he stole off rich accounts to charities and the like (although wether he did it or not was a lie is still debated, but this is what the man himself claims). He eventually got caught in Bangkok, and was arrested all while smiling (hence, the smiling hacker). He got extradited to atlanta and tried in 2015. this was after a three year chase, which culminated in that arrest. Keep in mind, around that time, BX1 was in the top 10 most wanted people list of the FBI. Now that's a compliment if i've ever seen one. He did not get sentenced to death, although it was proposed, but it was thought that computer crimes were not worthy of that sentence. He was jailed though, obviously, once the fun police catches you, there's no escape I suppose. But he is currently a free man. Many support him and see him as a symbol of rebellion against the corruptbanking world, others (mainly bankers) fear what he might do with his newfound freedom.

[TERROR IN GITHUB]

Some of you might remember this, some of you might not, but I suppose all of you know what github is, right? well, in 2018, catastrophy struck the servers when what is now remembered as the biggest DDoS attack in history fell upon github. The attack lasted only 9 minutes. It happened between 17:21 and 17:30 on February 28th. The Net traffic peak was that of a whopping 1,35 terabytes of data. Insane amounts. Overall, the site was COMPLETELY unavailable for the next 10 minutes due to it having DDoS protection measures in place. That is 10 minutes of the page ceasing to exist. It might not sound like much, but it is A. LOT. Despite this, the page went back to running that same day, however, recovery took a bunch of weeks after the attack. No greater DDoS attacks have been registered as of the current day. The author of the attack is unknown, but it is said that it might have originated from china, but this is still discussed.

[DATA-BREACHING FACEBOOK]

The year is 2019. You are reading some news article about Zuckerberg selling your private intel to third-parties. Whatever right? just some more guys spreading not-so-news and getting clicks on the net, they do it for a living. Well, next day you and other five-hundred and thirty-three million users have just had their accounts compromised and their data sold off. What. Just. Happened. Ok this is massive, facebook had a major flaw in their data fortress, more specifically, in their contact importer system. Hackers exploited this via a technique called scraping-think of it as digital fishing. And boy did they fish. They cast the net far and wide and picked up from full names to addresses to biographical intel... This also changed how social media corps were held accountable by the way, baby steps, but steps towards a bit of justice nonetheless. Users were also offered compensation thanks to those measures, which was SO satisfying to see honestly. Corporations losing money? Im all about that baby.

[THE BRITISH LIBRARY GETS PWNED]

Let's have a more recent story for a change, shall we? The British Library holds some really really important information for the government and country, some might even call it sensitive. Anyhow, in october 2023, a group known as the Rhysida Ransomware Group exposed shy of 600 gigabytes of data, which was for the most part HIGHLY sensitive information for the government. The attackers probably found exploitable gaps in the athentification systems of the library and used those to get into the data fortress, and after a failed ransom attempt, they released it. Or so it is said. The stunt cost the British Library anywhere between six and seven million british pounds to fix over a couple of months. And disrupting pretty much all other operations up till then. Outstanding hacking performance going on here.

[SPIDER MURHPY AND RACHE BARTMOSS]

In the 80s, Mike Pondsmith envisioned a world full of skilled chairjocks and people living on the edge between life and death in a dangerous, neon lit city in the then distant 2013 (lol). Among these people, there were two particularly notable netrunners among the very best. Those two were Spider Murphy and Rache Bartmoss. Rache had started netrunning since he was 4 years old in the 1990s (due to obvious inexperience the fucker used his real ID in netspace), and besides his advantage of starting young, he also proved to be exceptional at his craft, so much so that his real ID in netspace no longer mattered. He tried to work for companies after some time, but that just didn't sit right with him, so he got fired a couple times. At some point, he invented daemon programs, which he then sold after getting fired again for so much money that he wouldn't ever need to work again. It was around this time that Rache met Spider Murphy when he was 17 years old. She warned him about his SIN being wiped from the system. From that moment he started mentoring her and they got along pretty well, and those two along with Dog and Edger started running the net and lynching netwatch purely for fun, no profit involved (I also need to mention that he also ran the pacifica region after its collapse along with THE Alt Cunningham). Rache would pull all sorts of insane shit like hiring a full building of corporate netrunners and controlling them through a hidden subconcious program to control them. He also wrote the Succubus III program, a killer software which resembled Spider Murphy's Net icon at the time in order to lure "hormonally challenged losers" to its clutches. It was in the year 2020 that Bartmoss would meet his realspace demise, when he had his heart stop. However, he was active in the net at that time, so his conciosuness still lived on in the net and he still got up to his shennanigans. A year later, he was contacted by militech through the digital ghost of Alt Cunningham in order to try to win the 4th Corporate War by finding the soulkiller program, which was HUGE leverage. So he did just that, but in the end the outcome of the war was another thing... Anyways, in 2022, he got tracked and was about to die in cyberspace too, so as a last "gift", he released the R.A.B.I.D.S virus throughout the WHOLE net and broke it down to mossaics of private networks all along the world. A true netrunner till the end. As for murphy, she was, along with Bartmoss, considered probably one of the very best netrunners at the time. In contrast to Bartmoss, who used flamboyant and eye catching programs, Murphy was more of a utilitarian person, giving less importance to those aspects on her own programs. She also used a fully custom cyberdeck which was probably the most secure of that era. She is also responsible for compiling Rache Bartmoss' Guide to the net and Brainware Blowout, which she finished using Bartmoss' life memories after his realspace death. After the Datakrash, she became a bit dissapointed, since corporations were now using those pieces of the net to rule it with an iron fist because of their easy management. With this weighing on her, as well as Bartmoss' death, she joined the Militech team that was to strike Arasaka with a nuke along with Silverhand, Shaitan, Blackhand...etc in order to free Alt's digital ghost. The op was a success, whe received a fragment of soulkiller, freed Alt, Removed the program from arasaka's grasp... However, they did have an encounter with one Adam Smasher, which made their mission significantly more dificult. A day after said encounter, they went to sea in order to assault Arasaka's Sea Viper, where they were keeping Kei Arasaka, the current megacorp's heir. She disarmed every single guard and waited for him in the tea ceremony room with a soulkiller program and some jacks. She convinced Kei to commit "digital seppuku" for ruining his family's corporation and bringing dishonor to it, after drinking some sake with Spider, Kei obliged. Spider Murphy later destroyed the last of the soulkiller program, she bid her team goodbye, and watched the night sky with a feeling of emptiness... And that's the last part of her documented history, where she is now, how she died if she is dead... All unknown. But like Bartmoss, truly a netrunner worth admiring. Will something similar to the Datakrash happen irl anytime soon, I wonder? who knows, maybe YOU will bring it about ;)