How it works
For stories, games and capture-the-flag teams: press New group name and three parts join, an opener such as Offline or Deprecated, a harmless computing object and a crew word. No real group is named.
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Put your handle or home city first
Type it in Your handle or home city, for example Tamsin, and every name opens with it: Tamsin Semicolon Coders. Tap a part, then its padlock, to lock it; the next press swaps only the two left open. Print 30 group names makes a sheet for the team to vote on.
What the three parts are
Openers are states a screen or a file can be in: Buffering, Unsaved, Unresponsive. Emblems sit on a desk or a keyboard, from Cursor to Pizza Box. A byte, says Wikipedia’s glossary of computer science, most commonly consists of eight bits; Byte is an emblem and Binary an opener.
Questions and answers
What is a good name for a hacker group in a story?
Offline Semicolon Coders, Rebooted Dot Matrix Subnet, Deprecated Cursor Coding Club and Unsaved Caps Lock LAN Party. All four come from the lists below: an opener, a computing object, a crew word.
Are these the names of real hacker groups?
None was on October 4, 2026. That day a script set every part, and every name the parts can spell, beside the names linked on Wikipedia’s List of hacker groups; nothing matched. A new group may still take one.
Can a capture-the-flag team use one of these names?
Yes. The names are made for invented crews: a story, a tabletop game, a clan in a video game or a capture-the-flag team, such as Buffering Pizza Box CTF Team or Unresponsive Loading Bar Sysadmins. The page teaches nothing about breaking into a computer.