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Electron (computer hacker)
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<p>Electron was the computer <a href="/facts/Screen_name_(computing)/zQRzG0KG">handle</a> of Richard Jones, a member of an underground <a href="/facts/Hacker_(computer_security)/4bAJ9F1A">hacker</a> community called The Realm. Jones, born in June 1969, was one of three members of the group arrested in simultaneous raids by the <a href="/facts/Australian_Federal_Police/HtKGHkW6">Australian Federal Police</a> in <a href="/facts/Melbourne/EHY9YxI0">Melbourne</a>, <a href="/facts/Australia/qLHpbppq">Australia</a>, on 2 April 1990. All three — <a href="/facts/Nahshon_Even-Chaim/DFDtoN6z">Nahshon Even-Chaim</a> (also known as <i>Phoenix</i>), <i>Electron</i> and <i>Nom</i> (real name David John Woodcock) — were convicted of a range of computer crimes involving the intrusion into US defense and government computer systems and the theft of an online computer security newsletter in the late 1980s and early 1990. </p>