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shouts out to: waREz TEAM 18, team thunder of the gods, Paradox.

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DID YOU KNOW. The planet's foremost hacker multinational are Heinz Foods, famous for their slogan, "Beanz Meanz Heinz".

FACT TELNET. President Evil plans to have the Windows logoff tune play as he enters the flames at his cremation.

Welcome to Company Y - not just a site, but a state of mind. Company Y was founded in 1998 by the inimitable President Evil. A lone modder, working out of a bombed out hospital in the former Yugoslavia operating on only a 10 Base T patched cable, it was the aim of President Evil to bring about the end of Western sanctions on his homeland. Putting together a modem from a mere four RJ45s, a burnt out CID chip from a defunct Commodore 64, a lemon and the nose cone of an American 2,000lb "Bunker Buster", he put feelers to the rest of the Information Super Highway looking for those who shared his ideals. It wasn't long before his calls were answered. A young hacker from the streets of Oxford picked up on the message on the Space Above And Beyond Bulletin Board and proceeded to ping the IP address attached to the message. President Evil pinged thrice in response and thus - a beautiful friendship was formed.

Hailing from the home town of foppish intellectualism, 1337ist's passion for bad sci-fi programming had cast him as a loner and recluse among his peers. Many nights alone in front of his dual monitor setup, with Andromeda maximized on monitor two (15” Samsung) while he coded in Notepad on monitor one (19” Toshiba), left him a bitter young man with no way to express his frustration other than cross-posting on Space Above And Beyond boards using annoying HTML tags. Yet in President Evil, he found a kindred spirit who shared his resignation that he could only be funny from behind a keyboard and who understood and accepted that every second sentence he typed would end with, “Like in season three, episode six!” Together, they began to lay the foundations upon which Company Y would later build their multi-storey skyscraper. Among their most notable early achievements was the legendary HercuCon ‘98 hack, in which they re-programmed the boot ROM of the convention’s plasma screens to replace all instances of Hercules with an animated Dylan Hunt confirming in his sexy gutteral tones, "I am teh 1337!!!! w00t!!!"

In this early period, Company Y was a duo, combining hi-tech English software with Eastern Bloc ingenuity. It wasn't long before they realised that they needed some backup, someone with some new ideas, someone from the other side of the Atlantic. After discovering that the vast majority of US "WaReZ" sites were populated by amateurs, they started to think outside the box and looked for inspiration in the works of contemporary American Musical Artists. After obtaining a bootleg copy of the little known Beastie Boys album "Three MCs, One DJ and a Computer Technician", they discovered the third member of their team.

Devil Kiss, raised on the streets of Brooklyn and thus conversant in American-English, gangsta-rap and 1337-5p34k, had become disillusioned with the straight thinking of his rapping contemporaries and was looking to break out of the box into new musical and technological avenues. Thus, when approached in the fall of '99 by the duo, Devil Kiss was quick to join the crew after hearing their paradigm-breaking Spectrum 128 mix tape which featured the load sequence of Chucky Egg 2 sampled over the Joe Bloggs theme tune (which was later used on an Ariston body spray advert, ending in a messy court battle which only ended when the judge decided it was impossible for three complainants from three countries who had never met to launch action against a big wealthy multinational). Freshly infused with a blend of American steel and shoddy worksmanship, the trio began to push back the boundaries of h4ck1ng, most notably by successfully hacking the London Stock Exchange in 2001 to trick the Man United Shareholder's Group into thinking some Johnny Foreigner had bought out the club for thre'pence ha'penny.

This successful phishing trip paid handsome dividends with the recruitment of Company Y's fourth member - a white-collar criminal, a confidence trickster, a mathematical genius bettered only by Deep Blue and Carol Vorderman. Poppin' Fresh, a rebel with a money-grabbing cause, was impressed by the ingenuity and unusual un-geekiness of their LSE h4ck and IMAPed a ping to Devil Kiss' Linux box. The crew, initially doubtful of his skillz, told him to go 127.0.0.1, but Fresh persisted with a DDOS bombardment of that picture at goatse.cx, an attack no crew could hold out against. The trio soon found Fresh offered something new to the team - a life away from the computer screen (staying late at work to finish that report), financial security (h4ck3d bank accounts) and real world interaction (white wine spritzers after work).

Despite having a mighty quartet of nigh-invincible hackerz, President Evil felt that the group needed more skillz to bolster their reputation. After consulting with Poppin’ Fresh, President Evil decided to call in a serious case-modder, to improve the 1337ness of the crew. President Evil turned to the rest of the group and their many contacts. D3v1l K155 remembered one of his old comrades from the four Hackerz of the Apocalypse – War(ez), a young modder from the Bayou of South Lousiana. Since the demise of the Four Hackerz, he had changed his name and gone into hiding. Aware of his love for ©4nn4815, D3v1l K155 set up a TCP/IP link through a VCN tunnel linked directly into the Subnet Mask of alt.weed.talk and proceeded to REN the first letter of all .swf file names to spell out C-O-M-E-A-N-D-S-E-E. Recognising the old call to battle of the Four Hackerz of the Apocalypse, the newly renamed L4z3r B34m (now located in Kiev) set up a direct video stream to D3v1l K155’ 1337 Paul_Revere X556 Laptop and shortly after, joined Company Y.

The Company was now flying high, with Poppin’ Fresh providing insider information and resources, 1337ist using his worldwide network of Farscape, Andromeda and Space Above and Beyond contacts, D3v1l K155 encrypting all their hackz in bootleg Beastie Boys albums and L4z3r B34m modding their tech to unprecedented levels, Preisdent Evil directed their skillz to some of the greatest hackz of all time. The Great L’Oreal Hack of ’01 released 4,300 cosmetic maddened rabbits onto the streets of Leicester, providing enough distraction for the Krew to raze the bank account of Leiciester FC, forcing them to the brink of receivership whilst simultaneously bolstering their own finances.

Then, the unthinkable happened. Whilst watching “Be All My Sins Remembered” (Season 2, Episode 14) on their bi-monthly Andromeda evenings, the Krew themselves were subjected to a hack of unparalleled brilliance. Using a PERL based sub-routine, the Krew’s HTMLi was invaded by a hacker of unknown origin. By tracing all the relevant scripts back through the setup, this hacker brute-forced his way into the LINUX OS directory and did the one thing that no-one could ever have anticipated. He installed Windows 98. Immediately, the Krew’s network began to collapse in on itself. The money taken from Leicester FC was redistributed to the San Antonio Institute for Theoretical Physics and 3-line Pong Coding. VLC Media Player became corrupted and replaced Kevin Sorbo’s head with a horseshoe. As Company Y frantically tried to trace the call President Evil found the one clue that could lead them to this hacker before a fatal error of type 1124244235 occurred. A single file in the newly created IECache folder. A cookie. They had been hacked by the infamous C00k13 M0n573R, currently serving 25 years in a maximum security prison.

One spectacular Macgyver-like breakout later, C00k13 M0n573R was an official member of the Krew. His off-the-wall ideas of hacking breathed new life into Company Y, and led to them being added to the US Most Wanted list after a spectacular hack of Dick Cheney’s private collection of “specialist” photographs. Hunted by the NSA, Company Y needed somewhere safe to practice their art. Fortunately, President Evil knew of a hacker from his days in the Yugoslavian Underground, a fellow freedom fighter who had the resources to shelter them from the dogged pursuit of American authorities. T3rr0r Wr157, the West Bank’s most prodigious hacker. After relocating to the Bekaa Valley, T3rr0r Wr157 used his contacts in the SysAdmin section of Hamas to smuggle them into Palestine in the back of a 1973 Plymouth. Free from the pursuit of American organisations, Company Y made the one hack that could cease all unwanted interest in their activities. Mossad’s LAN was no match for the complete team of 1337 hackerz who were soon listed as deceased. Now, from their base in the Gaza Strip, Company Y could hack to their hearts’ content.

Like all great crews, Company Y have suffered periods of decline and 14m3r status as well as their highs, most (in)famously in the winter of '99 when trans-Atlantic language barriers led to President Evil attempting to create software to fix the clocks of the world's computers by wiping out the Millennium Dome. They have also shown a lack of creative thinking on occasion, such as the time they tried to steal the decimal places from a million bank accounts two weeks after Office Space came out.

Who's Who in the Crew
Project 1 - "Operation du41 r1g"
Project 2 - "Operation Takedown"
President's external hard drive
DVD