Time Line and Plot Points

The Rise of Biometric Security - 2004

Four giants of security technology develop cross authorisation techniques, which utilised varying forms of biometric scan, leading them into direct competition with each other.

The Data Bleed Epidemic - 2005

Marketing forces and corporate networks began using the new technology and developed ways of exploiting it that began to test the limits of acceptable practice. Moreover, they began to collaborate in their network of biometric information gathering systems.

Biometric Advertising Plague - 2007

Forms of marketing were developed to make the most of the new biometric accuracy, allowing it to gather information that could be leased to a network of many independent franchises and data analysts.

The Monopoly of Memecom - 2008

A court case was raised against the newly formed Memecom which, because of the nature of the new technology, was brought into governmental control and regulation; in effect this meant that Memecom had become a public branch of the National Security Cabinet. Thus the government gained the right to access biometric information stores under the new National Security Policy.

Rise of the policing of Biometric Security - 2009

Once the government had accepted the responsibility of regulating the use of biometrics, it created the Bureau of Identity Theft (BIT) and the Centre of Information Freedom (CIF) to act as watchdogs. The Millennium Data Protection Act(2000) was changed to incorporate the Biometric Data Protection Act(2009) and expanded to include the new exploitations of information collation; causing a widespread abandonment of biometric advertising and marketing.

GAIA : The "Global Advanced Information Awareness" Initiative. - 2010

The GAIA Initiative was a more cohesive version of the Total Information Awareness Initiative that later became the Terrorist Awareness Initiative. The same methods that supported the old plague of biometric marketing, were now being used to capture and collate biometric information and find patterns in activity in order to help prevent possible terrorist threats.

The J Random Hacking Spree - 2012

J Random Hacker becomes front page news by announcing that he would rule the world single handed and cast out the oppressors; the oppressors were named as Memecom and it's subsidiaries. Due to the extensive publicity, it did manage to do very real damage to the Memecom image and by extension the government. The BIT quickly uncovered the identity of the culprit as an high level meme-code programmer, William Olafsson working for ID International, and moved to arrest; however, Olafsson had created a virus out of his own biometric information; the virus program was intelligent enough to proof read meme code and carry out automated tasks in line with his normal routine.

The J Random Trial - 2013

After numerous publicised hacks and activities, J Random Hacker was launched to fame and placed in the top five most wanted men worldwide; though was eventually caught and brought to justice through an international collaborative effort. The BIT was expanded to a multi-national level, uniting with similar organisations world wide to form the Global Alliance of Technological Enforcement (GATE), initially set up between Japan, Europe and America, and managed to track him down through his own research and development that was being conducted over numerous sub-net archives.

J Random Sells Out - 2015

After just two years of a thirty year sentence the government intervened and gave JRH a chance to work for the BIT under probation and strict tagging protocols. He was seconded by Knut Miller, his old associate and now a Director for Memecom, and began giving up all of his secrets to developing truly robust biometric protocols for security.

The Birth of ID - 2016

The ID Project was fully endorsed and funded by the government, it was a simple system and relatively cheap to roll out as it used the existing biometric infrastructure.

03/05/2019

J Random Hacker, was treated as an expensive resource wholly owned by Memecom and though living in relative freedom of lifestyle was heavily monitored. J Random Hacker spent his free time working out a means of bypassing even these meagre limitations, and when he managed to begin cracking secure transmissions discovered that Memecom had gained as much as they wanted from him and had ordered his termination.

12/06/2019

After hearing of his coming misfortune he began preparing a counter attack. A last message was left in a makeshift download of his workstation, compressed into a single CD image and posted via encrypted link. It stated J Random Hackers intensions and what would need to be done. It remained on the net for approximately twelve seconds before deleting itself, by which time it had already been downloaded from connections throughout the globe.

02/07/2020

The support group for JRH had downloaded their version of the Gateway Image and had begun scanning its contents. Although they seem to conclude that it has a possible use, they also conclude that there is some aspect missing and that only one open connection would be made. There is also some doubt as to whether or not any one should try and take it to its conclusion. They determine that it will be used to attack Memecom and specifically to target backdoors and bugs in the ID system itself.

03/07/2020

Once free and revelling in his continued power over security methods, J Random Hacker contacted Knut Miller to gloat and announce his vengeance. Knut Miller is then arrested by the BIT who disclaim any assassination conspiracy and charge him with Information Terrorism as a collaborator with JRH.

04/07/2020

An infamous image is broadcast over the internet, showing possible BIT agents making a hit. It was also claimed that this was the death of the real J Random Hacker.