Mixter
Mixter is a computer security specialist. Mixter first made the transition out of the computer underground into large-scale public awareness, in 2000, at which time newspapers and magazines worldwide mentioned a link to massively destructive and effective distributed denial of service attacks which crippled and shut down major websites. Early reports stated that the FBI-led National Infrastructure Protection Center was questioning Mixter regarding a tool called Stacheldraht. Although Mixter himself was not a suspect, his tool, the "Tribal Flood Network" and an update called TFN2K were ultimately discovered as being the ones used in the attacks; causing an estimated $1.7 billion USD in damages.
In 2002 Mixter returned to the public eye, as the author of Hacktivismo's Six/Four System. The Six/Four System is a censorship resistant network proxy. It works by using "trusted peers" to relay network connections over SSL encrypted links. As an example, the distribution includes a program which will act as a web proxy, but all of the connections will be hidden until they reach the far end trusted peer.
