"Quentin" Overview
An unknown hacker with the pseudonym "Quentin" was the first.
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An unknown hacker with the pseudonym "Quentin" was the first.
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--"Quentin" is interviewed, with other hackers. ,
This segment was also described in a .
"Quentin told us he's...browsed through secret government files on UFOs, and gone snooping in our nation's military computers." - Narrator (2:15)
1993 published in Phrack Magazine, Issue 42, File 13. (Use CTRL+F to find "Text File" for the relevant part.)
The prints UFO-related search terms and IP addresses of US secret networks, information supplied by "Quentin" and possibly two or more accomplices.
that predates the Phrack article. ()
, who wrote letters to NBC.
2019 , who attributes the quote:
"The hacker is aware of the interest his apparent UFO data has provoked, but does not wish to respond." - the late Susan Adams (Dateline NBC producer)
Quentin influenced and , the hackers who succeeded him. From email correspondence:
"I was referencing this textfile... Phrack... it was picked up in the BBS I went to." - Mathew Bevan
"I remember the Quentin docs and other stuff. IP Addresses of some of them overlap with what I found." - Gary McKinnon
I contacted Chris "Erik Bloodaxe" Goggans, the editor of Phrack. Here are two things he said:
"I know that Quentin had at least two people in the hacker scene that he considered friends and was usually working with on whatever it was he was up to. Don't know much more about them."
"I have no real way to track down authors of the submitted articles at this point, as I don't have the Phrack email archives from 1993."
Quentin's true identity remains unknown.
