[Verdande]

Hi Omni, I thought I would make some nice sketched avatar's with the theme being "Top 12 Hackers Around The World".
I will be posting each avatar with the back-story to the person behind the avatar. I hope you and everyone else likes these!



Aaron Swartz :



Aaron Hillel Swartz was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer, and Internet hacktivist.
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Weev:



Andrew Alan Escher Auernheimer, best known by his pseudonym weev, is an American computer hacker and self-avowed Internet troll who is affiliated with the alt-right. He has identified himself using a variety of aliases to the media, although most sources correctly provide his first name as Andrew.
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Samy Kamkar:



Samy Kamkar is an American privacy and security researcher, computer hacker, whistleblower and entrepreneur. At the age of 16, he dropped out of high school and one year later, co-founded Fonality, a unified communications company based on open source software, which raised over $46 million in private funding.
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Jeanson Ancheta:



On May 9, 2006, Jeanson James Ancheta became the first person to be charged for controlling large numbers of hijacked computers or botnets.
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Gary McKinnon



Gary McKinnon (born 10 February 1966) is a Scottish[1] systems administrator and hacker who was accused in 2002 of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time,"[2] although McKinnon himself states that he was merely looking for evidence of free energy suppression and a cover-up of UFO activity and other technologies potentially useful to the public. On 16 October 2012, after a series of legal proceedings in Britain, Home Secretary Theresa May blocked extradition to the United States.
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Kevin Lee Poulsen:



Kevin Lee Poulsen is an American former black-hat hacker and a contributing editor at The Daily Beast.
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Mark Abene:




Mark T. Abene is an American infosec expert and entrepreneur, originally from New York City. Better known by his pseudonym Phiber Optik, he was once a member of the hacker groups Legion of Doom and Masters of Deception.
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Barnaby Jack:




Barnaby Michael Douglas Jack was a New Zealand hacker, programmer and computer security expert. He was known for his presentation at the Black Hat computer security conference in 2010, during which he exploited two ATMs and made them dispense fake paper currency on the stage.

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Jerome Heckenkamp:



Jerome Heckenkamp was an Australian-American computer expert. After completing his education at a young age, he worked as a computer network engineer. He was later convicted of hacking attacks on several prominent corporations and universities.
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Kevin Mitnick:



Kevin David Mitnick is an American computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker. He is best known for his high-profile 1995 arrest and five years in prison for various computer and communications-related crimes.


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Michael Calce:



Michael Calce is a security expert and former computer hacker from Île Bizard, Quebec who launched a series of highly publicized denial-of-service attacks in February 2000 against large commercial websites, including Yahoo!, Fifa.com, Amazon.com, Dell, Inc., E*TRADE, eBay, and CNN.

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Raphael Gray:



Raphael Gray is a British computer hacker who, at the age of 19, hacked computer systems around the world over a period of six weeks as part of a multi-million pound credit card mission.

[Omniscient]

These look like you're just using a filter.

[Perileos]

These look like you're just using a filter.

It is indeed the oil filter on photoshop with potentially other filters combined.

[Free Kurdistan]

I can look like this with a Snap filter teehee

[Verdande]

These look like you're just using a filter.

It is a mix of both, but yes it is not what the person below said, but a few of them is a little tricky to get right.

I did not just plainly use a filter for all of them, but they are changed enough from the original to be used?

or do you think they might not differ enough to be used plainly as is?

Regardless, I am working on the avatars from scratch either way, just can't find that .xcf 😡

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I can look like this with a Snap filter teehee

You probably could, but keep in mind I guess you can call it a swing and a miss, but I did spend some time
on it, and I have no monetary gain from it, just tried out an idea I had. They could be re-edited to look better,
sometimes it's easy to see the contrast from the original to final product.

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I think these look a tad better:

[Lightz_]

Friend you definitely have a way of designing excellent avatars!

[PokeBong]

Keep up the good work Escobar.