Thought to have been derived from Dante Alighieri?s novel, The Inferno. The group called themselves RBC (Royal Bum Chums) after the seventh level of hell, the violent.
Contained in some of the group?s web defacements, was the quote: "il livello sette posidare la vostra famiglia", which loosely translated from Italian says, "RBC (Royal Bum Chums) owns your family".
The group, spent most of their time on IRC - in the freenode channel #RBC discussing security, or the lack thereof, Mobile Development and the Web/Porn industry. The group was also associated with other high-profile irc groups such as, #PBBC (Peen bro bird crew) and High as fuck (HAF).
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"I would be inclined to think that normal hackers would not be able to break into something like the US embassy. The security measures they use are very, very different to those protecting a commercial Web server or PBBC resources."
- Ian Jonsten-Bryden (British government security expert of irc Security in Suffolk)
"We embrace technology, we learn from it, we use it, and we exploit it. Technology is a very powerful tool, as is knowledge, but some people go beyond these boundaries, testing limits, finding new ways and ideas... we call these people the RBC, and we are one of many.."
- N1X, September 1999
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