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Hacker
P0isonApp1e
Ani (or that's what people who work with her have been told)
Germany, Belgium and Netherlands
Changing, she usually picks people to work with based on current interests
In the online world not much is known about Ani personally. She has been active for quite a while; her current handle can be at least found for six years - which matches up with the fact that she is midway through her 20s, according to her. She is known to be more along the activist lines, than the professionals or those who just enjoy sparking chaos. She likes to teach people, especially in the online community showing newbies where to find new information and what to try. She also likes to keep to herself, so little is known about her normal life. To be honest even if Ani is a her or him is kept out of the virtual world and anybody getting to really work with her is sworn to secrecy (or misinformation).
As she usually deals with hardware security, highlighting how vulnerable even life-securing systems are, she can not completely shut people out of her life. Her coarse location is known from her working range and has led to some speculation about her real personality, especially leading to some activist in the hacker organization "Chaos Computer Club" - but essentially all of those are unconfirmed. Probably as even with the speculations taking there it is still unsure if one must look for a woman or man.
Even her actions are sometimes hard to track, but the one she wants to be known by community are usually somehow connected to a sticker of her avatar.

The very few people knowing her better in a personal way (which are always people having worked with her more than once) know that she has some hobbies besides electronic, doing dance classes and Kendo. She makes a living by helping her family organize a local bakery chain, doing necessary IT work in the still small enterprise but also such mundane things as stepping in for an ill driver or sales assistant.

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InfoSec
unknown or not sticking to one
Prof. apl. Jakob Matsen
Germany
Siegaue University
Jakob took a very academical approach to becoming a security expert. At a rather young age he started to toy around with computers and hung out a lot with his older cousins who fiddled with hardware. Soon enough he did the same and step by step learned about hardware and programming as the information age progressed on. He decided to study computer science - a very promising area in his student days - and started to learn things in a more structured way. He had already learned about hackers and the dangers connected to them, but being just a young student he did not care so much. The threat did not seem too apparent, after all it was less dangerous than in this day and age. He rather continued fiddling with hardware and slid into the more technical inclined groups.

His professors were happy with his success and he found a position as a doctoral researcher. One of the first conferences he attended changed his mind. A very passionate speaker laid out the dangers of corruption through hackers and for the first time he felt the same, maybe because he was more aware of the easiness of the attacks, or maybe because of the speaker. In the end it brought him to shifting his own research into the vulnerabilities and possibilities to secure embedded systems.

After receiving his doctoral degree, he went to an american university as part of a small research group engaged in the research of interaction between hardware security and prevention of social engineering. His contract ended after two years, but a partner of the group offered him the possibility to be employed as a consultant. He stayed four more years, travelling the US and consulting different enterprises on their hardiness against social engineering, and choice and hardening of security systems.

In the end he admitted to himself that he missed the academical life, especially the open field of possibilities that research offered. After sending out a few applications he got accepted at his current university as an interim professor in embedded systems. His research still makes him travel often, as he tightly connects it to work with real world enterprises.

_{Image by Marcel Gnauck from Pixabay}

Hacker
OffByNone
U.N.K.N.O.W.N.
Pakistani VPN. Authorities have traced potentially correlated traffic to Israel, but no concrete details have been confirmed.
Dragon's Scythe (Ad Hoc). The organization is responsible for releasing secret government documents exposing corruption and generating significant public unrest in over 30 countries across the globe. Chile has offered a $150,000 bounty for information related to Dragon's Scythe and President Trump has described the organization as "a major threat to cyber for the U.S., maybe even the world." While not a consistent member, OffByNone has proven him/herself regularly valuable.
OffByNone is rarely active on Saturday afternoons and has an interest in all things scientific and technological. Attempts to pin down precise working hours have failed, but OffByNone willingly reveals trivial personal hobbies such as shows he/she is following, recent memes, and qualms with societal structure and customs. Authorities have built a comprehensive personality profile of OffByNone.