We are dedicated to providing cutting-edge security solutions at no cost to the community, and since our source code is protected speech, we are not going anywhere. Criminals makes millions every year selling tools that are designed to be point and disrupt. So we decided why not do the same with security tools, except at no cost for the home user. Until now, governments, criminal organizations and other groups have paid hackers thousands of dollars to buy what are known as 0-day exploits, flaws in software you use everyday that have no fix or patches. Others report them to the manufacturer for money in bounty programs. We use them to create tools that protect YOU and your family members in real-time from these 0-days, as well as advance the right to repair movement and homebrew scene by exploiting these same flaws for good/fun.

If you are asking yourself why would we do this? It because we are the hackers who still have the core belief that, like anarchy is not about violence and smashing windows, hacking is not about damaging lives, stealing data or making money. Its about pushing boundaries, exploring, finding new and better ways of doing something and improving peoples lives. And for the longest time, hackers were at the forefront of the tech world. They didn't have to buy their own platforms or pay people to like them. Hackers didn't care how many people followed them. Instead of using their real names, they had monikers like Grandmaster Ratte, Mudge, Sid Vicious...and yes, even Lord British.

They taught us hacking was more a mentality like punk then a adjective describing an action. They taught us that just because we can doesn't meant we should, and if someone tells us we cant, we will prove them wrong...just so we can say we did it. For us, its about having fun, a very important part of living as long as your not hurting other people. And that's what the original hackers from MIT, Berkley and Cal-tech taught us, dating all the way back to the 1950's when computers we more of a mechanical machine and looked nothing like what a computer today looks like, let alone functions like one.

But everything changed after 9/11 happened. While it was very important people like the members of the Cult of The Dead Cow and other groups came to aid of those fighting the war against a brand new world, one the government knew nothing about (due their own fault). But as the war dragged on and and computers evolved, the hackers did not find the balance between going to far and remembering what the word hacker once meant. They forgot what the core of being one was about. While making money is fine, those tools ended up on the phones and computers of dissidents, reporters and have led to the deaths of people seeking nothing more than a better life or for trying to report on war crimes. They have become the go to tool for dictators controlling their populations. And those tools have continued to evolve. With the dawn of a new AI era, surveillance spyware, crypto-jackers and info stealers are being created faster than ever. And with only a handful of the old guard still active working on projects such as Veilid trying to undo the damage that was done, we are losing the war on safety, privacy and freedom.

While the immediate effect of these tools were not known to many, and it took years of court cases and FOI requests to reveal just how they were being used by the US government and others, the real damage was already done. Then when these tools were leaked, instead of helping on the front lines to stop the damage being done, the people who created them slipped into C-Suite jobs or government advisor roles making millions with their true backgrounds completely hidden.

That is why we formed this group. As the old guard moved on, not looking back, no one stepped up to take their place and instead left the next generation to learn on their own. And while some of these groups had the right idea, they had the wrong execution. You know the saying, "The path to hell is paved with good intentions."

Besides making tools to to help stop the current war on privacy, we will also be releasing tools that will protect you from 0-day exploits. Tools that will outsmart the spyware and malware/ransomware that has infected millions of computer. But also how to still have fun with it.

No, we are not legion. And some of us are getting old, so we might forget. But its time hackers are no longer a bad word again. For a full history of the hacker revolution, there are some great books. I suggest reading Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World by Joseph Mann. (When I was just a little script kiddie myself in the early 90's, I spent countless hours on their BBS, reading and learning everything I could, so I'm a little biased. And a little traumatized.)

This is not some manifesto, its just a lesson in history and a plea to other hackers. If we don't want history to repeat at the dawn of this new computing era we just entered, we need hackers on the side of....well chaotic good. If you want to join us, find us (we really are not hiding).