Jean-Bernard Condat

Jean-Bernard Condat (born 1963) is a French computer security expert and former hacker who became a consultant to the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DST).[1][2] Using the name concombre (English: cucumber), he achieved status as one of the most well known French hackers in the 1990s.[3]

Biography

Condat was born in 1963 in Béziers, Hérault. He completed the baccalauréat at age 16 before attending the University of Lyon to study musicology,[4] earning his deug.[5]

Chaos Computer Club France

It was around 1982 that Condat joined the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance,[2] an intelligence agency within the French National Police, who planted him in strategic positions, such as a sysop for CompuServe. 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, with the purpose of investigating and surveilling the French hacker community.[6][7] The group would also work with the National Gendarmarie.[8] The CCCF had an electronic magazine called Chaos Digest (ChaosD). Between January 4, 1993 and August 5, 1993, seventy-three issues were published (ISSN 1244-4901).

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References

  1. Warusfel, Bertrand (2000). Contre-espionnage et protection du secret: histoire, droit et organisation de la sécurité nationale en France. La Vauzelle. p. 86.
  2. 1 2 N'kaoua, Laurance; Faucon, Benoit (2002-02-25). "Jean-Bernard Condat, le traqueur de hackers". Les Echos. Retrieved 2016-07-04.
  3. Anonymous (1997). Maximum Security: A Hacker's Guide to Protecting Your Internet Site and Network. SAMS Publishing. p. 733. ISBN 978-1575212685.
  4. Interview Zataz magazine, February 2004
  5. "LYON CAPITALE - Multimédia". 2005-12-27. Archived from the original on December 27, 2005. Retrieved 2016-07-04.
  6. Taylor, Paul (1999). Hackers: Crime in the Digital Sublime. Routledge. p. 37. ISBN 978-0415180726.
  7. Phrack No. 64, "A personal view of the french underground (1992–2007)", 2007: "A good example of this was the fake hacking meeting created in the middle 1990' so called the CCCF (Chaos Computer Club France) where a lot of hackers got busted under the active participation of a renegade hacker so called Jean-Bernard Condat."
  8. LE FBI RECRUTE LES PIRATES DU NET POUR TRAQUER BEN LADEN, Marianne, Anne-Sophie Yoo, 29 October 2001
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