Jean-Bernard Condat

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Jean-Bernard Condat
Born (1963-01-01) January 1, 1963 (age 60)
France
Nationality French
Other namesConcombre, Cucumber
Occupation Programmer
Known for Computer security, Hacking

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]

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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 4 January 1993 and 5 August 1993, seventy-three issues were published ( ISSN   1244-4901).

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  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, 2001-10-29