User:Yuuki (Wikimedian)
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 Yuuki in 2018 | |
| Born | Yuuki Konno May 17, 1994 (age 29 years, 5 months and 12 days) Ninohe, Iwate, Japan |
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| Education and employment | |
| Education | Iwayadō Elementary School (dropped out) |
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| Website | yuukikonno.com |
Yuuki Konno[1] (金野 裕希, Konno Yūki, born May 17, 1994) is a Japanese Wikimedian.
Early life[edit]
Yuuki Konno was born on May 17, 1994 at 1:56 a.m., at Fukuoka Hospital in Ninohe, Iwate, and raised in Esashi. His mother, Yūko (née Jūmonji), was a nurse, and father, Kōji Konno, a medical assistant and later labor union activist.[2] He has an older brother, Songsknow.
At the age of two, Yuuki started using a computer when his father bought him a Panasonic U1 Pro FW-U1P609 word processor. He learned kanji through its kana–kanji conversion, became hyperlexic, and read through the Great Chinese–Japanese Dictionary. He was bought a Fujitsu FMV Deskpower MV205 FMVM52053 computer at age four and played games including Puyo Puyo for Windows 95 and Diablo.[3]
Early career[edit]
In 2003, his father signed up for Yahoo! BB and Yuuki went online at age nine. He started his career as a troll on Thebbs textboard[4] under the handle Aku no Zurihaki[5] (悪のずりはき, lit. Zurihaki of evil). He later renamed himself Seizan. He learned HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and created a browser exploit and security website.[6] Yuuki gained widespread attention in Virtual Farm (バーチャル農場, Virtual Nōjō), a browser-based farming game operated by RCC, after lying that his money was stolen by another player. He became known as "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" (狼少年, Ōkami Shōnen).[7] He found cross-site scripting vulnerability on the game's site and spread an XSS worm.
In 2005 Yuuki dropped out of Iwayadō Elementary School in fifth grade.
Monachat[edit]
In 2007, at age 13, Yuuki met a hacker named "Linux User" who taught him Debian GNU/Linux and Perl in Monachat (もなちゃと, Monachato), a metaverse based on ASCII art avatars. On September 15, 2007, Yuuki rose to stardom after launching a massive DDoS attack against Monachat under the handle Momakuru (もま☆くる).[8]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Yuuki goes by his first name and is stylized as yuuki (ゆうき).
- ↑ His father was chairman of the Communist Party-affiliated Iwate Federation of Trade Unions (Iwate Rōren).
- ↑ Yuuki 2023.
- ↑ Yama Arashi 2002.
- ↑ "Zurihaki" is a randomly typed string.
- ↑ Yuuki 2004.
- ↑ Anonymous 2004.
- ↑ Desuno 2007.
References[edit]
- Anonymous, et al. (2004). "Virtual Nōjō e yōkoso!" 【ﾁｭﾌﾟ】バーチャル農場へようこそ！【ﾋｯｷｰ】 [Welcome to Virtual Farm!]. 2channel (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2022-03-09.
- Desuno (2007). "Mugen zanzō secchi de "Momakuru" tairyō hassei. 1000 nin chō!" 無限残像設置で「もま☆くる」大量発生。1000人超！ [Infinite "Momakuru" zombies spawned. Over 1,000!] (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-10-16.
- Yama Arashi, et al. (2002). "Muzukashii kanji, omoshiroi kanji" 難しい漢字・面白い漢字 [Difficult kanji, interesting kanji]. Thebbs (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2004-06-21.
- Yuuki (2004). "Internet Security Laboratory" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2005-03-11.
- Yuuki (2023). "List of video games that yuuki has ever played".