🧢"Quentin" Overview
An unknown hacker with the pseudonym "Quentin" was the first.
Earliest: "Quentin" on Dateline NBC and in Phrack
1992 Dateline NBC segment--"Quentin" is interviewed, with other hackers. YouTube video, alternate
"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 Project Green Cheese / Project ALF-1 published in Phrack Magazine, Issue 42, File 13. (Use
CTRL+Fto find "Text File" for the relevant part.) The e-zine prints UFO-related search terms and IP addresses of US secret networks, information supplied by "Quentin" and possibly two or more accomplices.Here's a mailing list that predates the Phrack article. (Archived commentary)
1994 Columns in UFO Magazine by T. Scott Crain, who wrote letters to NBC.
2019 article about the NBC segment by Nick Redfern, 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)
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.
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