Jason Burks
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| Born | Jason Burks October 2, 1976 Bartlesville, Oklahoma  |
| Spouse(s) | UNKNOWN |
Jason Burks born October 2 1976, also referred to as "v00d00" is a former computer hacker and malicious software writer. He is best known for writing the Juggernaut Hydra and releasing it into an office building mainframe. It caused electrical failures throughout the building, and crashed the system servers.
In 2005, Mr. Burks was a suspect in the remote access of the National Security database. The investigation concluded that there was not sufficient evidence to gain interest to a primary suspect due to the fact that there was no evidence of file disturbance.
In 2006, he designed a method of programming that utilizes probability theory. The method is still under investigation however it is being utilized at several Universities throughout the United States.
Jason Burks is also believed to be part of the Caltech 6 which is a group of civilian personnel, all of which have special forces backgrounds. They assist with high level I.T. security within government agencies.
Mr. Burks' pseudonym was taken from the religion Voodoo.
In 2005, Mr. Burks acquired a Bachelors of Science in Software Engineering from the University of California.
Mr. Burks is currently an engineering consultant with several government agencies and intelligence communities. Currently he resides in the Midwestern United States, and works as a software engineer.
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- HackerMAG, page 26 "Going Straight" author Sam Davies. Retrieved August 8, 2007
- Corporate Security News, The art of Computation and Probability Theory. Retrieved September 14 2007
- Popular Mechanics "Cyber World and Nano Technology" March 2005
- In the movie Firewall Bill Cox, (played by actor Paul Bettany), made reference to Mr. Burks when he told Jack Stanfield,(played by actor Harrison Ford)"I need you to give me the magic of v00d00."
