Jean-Bernard Condat (born November 26, 1963) is a French computer security expert and former hacker 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, Hérault. He completed the baccalauréat at age 16 before attending the University of Lyon to study musicology,Interview Zataz magazine, February 2004 earning his deug.
Chaos Computer Club, France It was around 1982 that Condat joined the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance, 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.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." 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 ().
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See also Chaos Computer Club List of hacker groups
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