The Dream World of Mert Ortaç

to his supervisor at the Intelligence Agency, who became even more
interested in DarkMarket: not only were there left-wing terrorists active
on the site, but it was actually run by Turks! This could be something
major, so it required further investigation. Mert was given the authority
to make contact with Cha0 and any other Turks that he found loitering
around the DarkMarket board. It was not long before he thought he
had identified another – Lord Cyric.

Mert started searching the archives of the early 1990s, when many
geeks were using something called the BBS, or Bulletin Board Service,
a bridge between an electronic messaging system and the Internet. As
he was looking through the logs, his jaw dropped when he came across
two familiar nicknames, sitting side by side: Cha0 and Lord Cyric! It
would appear, he deduced, that these two masterminds of DarkMarket
had known each other for a very long time.