Genocide2600
Hacker group
title: "Genocide2600" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["hacker-groups"] description: "Hacker group" topic_path: "general/hacker-groups" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide2600" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| name | Genocide2600 |
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| formation | 1985 |
| dissolved | 2009 |
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| purpose | Hacking |
| location | United States |
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| leader_title | Origin |
| leader_title2 | Platforms |
| leader_title3 | Founders |
| leader_name3 | Travis Ogden |
| leader_title4 | Products |
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| website | www.genocide2600.com |
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Genocide2600 was a hacker group or collective which was active from the 1980s into early 2000. The group's name was explained as a statement designed to show people that they had become desensitized to being shocked by the horrors seen throughout the world such as murder and other atrocities. It was the hope of the founder "Genocide" that the very name or word Genocide would cause people to flinch or experience some sort of revulsion and therefore, wake up a little.
History
The Genocide2600 Group's origin started in approximately 1987 with the group taking part in telephone phreaking, writing and rewriting methodologies for taking advantage of telephony systems and then trading such information on bulletin board systems. The group diversified and became involved with what is now known as social engineering in the early 1990s and then formally computer hacking in the mid-1990s. Because of the varied schools of thought that members of The Genocide2600 Group took part in, the publications that were released by its members are found to be quite scattered in their subject material.
The group gained notoriety by focusing the varied talents of its members to combat child pornography on sites such as AOL. Several members of The Genocide2600 Group joined with a number of other hackers in the mid-1990s (including RSnake and Revelation) interested in the combat of Internet Child Pornography and formed the group "EHAP" or Ethical Hackers Against Pedophilia where they worked with various law enforcement agencies to combat child pornography.
Aside from the battle with child pornography, the Genocide2600 group also supported various ideas and software applications including Snort and Packetstorm by hosting the sites in their infancy. The Genocide2600 group at one point could no longer host Packetstorm as the server was physically relocating across the country, and due to the popularity of the site, it had to be temporarily moved. Tattooman managed to find a home for it on Harvard's servers resulting in a huge "Hacker Crossfire". Later, the site was purchased and brought up on "Kroll-O'Gara".
Members
As of 2011 exactly what has happened to all of the members of The Genocide2600 Group is not known. Those members still in contact or desiring to be public include: Travis Ogden "Genocide", William Marquette "Doxavg", Ken Williams "Tattooman", Jim Forster "The Weasel", Andrew Schlotfeldt "Astroboy", Alex Richardson "Overlord", Joe Aronow "Godpunk" and Cody Ogden "Wizdom".
Other members included (legal names withheld): Stranger, Loki, Dequeue, Speedygrl, Spikeman, S7urm, Bernz, Revelation, P4nd0r4, Jigz, Alexu, Mantis.
References
References
- Dan Verton. (2002). "The Hacker Diaries". McGraw-Hill / Osborne.
- Donna M. Hughes. (1999). "Pimps and Predators on the Internet". [[Coalition Against Trafficking in Women]].
- Courtney Macavinta. (2 Feb 1998). "Hacker group battles child porn". [[Cnet.com]].
- Deborah Radcliff. (18 Aug 1998). "Hacking away at kiddie porn". [[CNN.com]].
- RSnake. (31 Jan 1998). "Happy Hacker Digest". happyhacker.org.
- Cruciphux. (8 May 1999). "HWA.hax0r.news ... #17". [[Cubesoft communications]].
- Robert Lemos. (2 Jul 1999). "Harvard caught in hacker crossfire". [[ZDNet.com]].
- Ken Williams. (1 Jul 1999). "Email to 'The Usual Suspects'". [[Attrition.org]].
- Hemos. (17 Aug 1999). "Packet Storm Security is back". [[slashdot.org]].
- Dan Verton. (2002). "The Hacker Diaries". [[McGraw-Hill / Osborne]].
- David S. Bennahum. (18 Apr 1997). "The Cybernetic Education of a Hacker: the Genocide2600 story". [[memex.org]].
- Dan Verton. (18 July 2002). "Hackers to corporate America: You're lazy". [[ComputerWorld.com]].
- (5 Nov 1999). "Latest Virus Incidents Report". [[Panda Security]].
- (1 Dec 2000). "Virus.DOS.Taz.987". [[Securelist.com]].
- Sarah Granger. (18 Dec 2001). "Social Engineering Fundamentals, Part I: Hacker Tactics". [[Symantec.com]].
- Lappe, Anthony. (14 June 1998). "New York Hackers See Breaking Into Computers as a Healthy Thing". [[The New York Times]].
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