The Network

A collective of hackers and programmers founded in the Bay Area back in the 80s, the Network has become one of the preeminent digital conspiracies, with numerous hacker collectives operating as a front for the true Network--oftentimes unwittingly. The Network has infiltrated countless networks, and have backdoors to even some of the world's most secure systems. Decentralized to the extreme, the Network has no physical headquarters, and its leadership meets only in the depths of Cyberspace. Even their goals remain vague, though it seems at the moment to be promoting the expansion of computers and technology ever further into everyday life, until eventually everyone is online, all the time. And what's most worrisome to the other secret societies is that the Network seems to be winning.