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 best-known French hackers in the 1990s.[3]
Jean-Bernard Condat | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 1, 1963 France |
| Nationality | French |
| Other names | Concombre, Cucumber |
| Occupation | Programmer |
| Known for | Computer security, Hacking |
Biography edit
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 edit
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 4 January 1993 and 5 August 1993, seventy-three issues were published (ISSN 1244-4901).
Bibliography edit
- Condat, Jean-Bernard, ed. (1988). Nombre d'or et musique [Golden Section and Music]. Peter Lang GmbH. ISBN 978-3631403471.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Warusfel, Bertrand (2000). Contre-espionnage et protection du secret: histoire, droit et organisation de la sécurité nationale en France. La Vauzelle. p. 86.
- ^ a b N'kaoua, Laurance; Faucon, Benoit (2002-02-25). "Jean-Bernard Condat, le traqueur de hackers". Les Echos. Retrieved 2016-07-04.
- ^ Anonymous (1997). Maximum Security: A Hacker's Guide to Protecting Your Internet Site and Network. SAMS Publishing. pp. 733. ISBN 978-1575212685.
- ^ Interview Archived 2014-04-10 at the Wayback Machine Zataz magazine, February 2004
- ^ "LYON CAPITALE - Multimédia". 2005-12-27. Archived from the original on 2005-12-27. Retrieved 2016-07-04.
- ^ Taylor, Paul (1999). Hackers: Crime in the Digital Sublime. Routledge. pp. 37. ISBN 978-0415180726.
- ^ 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."
- ^ LE FBI RECRUTE LES PIRATES DU NET POUR TRAQUER BEN LADEN, Marianne, Anne-Sophie Yoo, 2001-10-29