Appearance:


Name/Nickname:
Joseph Benton, 17

Quote:
Computers are just a pile a data to process inputs and outputs. Give it a tweak and you can get all kinds of cool things.

Gender: Male

Occupation

Personality:
Joseph is out going and outspoken when it comes to making new friends, this is mostly because he wants to hide his true self. He will act social and friendly when inwardly he couldn’t care less about the feelings and interests of other people. Sure he will get to know and call you “friend” but he will just as quickly alienate you once he feels you are no longer necessary.

History:
From a young age Joseph loved computers. This included taking them apart, putting the together, and finding out how the software works. At 10 Joseph’s dad came home to Joseph sitting in the middle of the floor with computer parts strewn all over, and Joseph carefully examining each one and placing it back onto the computer’s mother board. Josephs dad wanted to discipline his son, but while waiting for him to finish with the computer he could not see a reason to. He simply told him not to take the computer apart without asking unless it was his.

A few years down the road Joseph, now in high school, became the tech lab assistant and helped with minor tech issues around the school. This did not last long when they found out that most of Joseph’s time spent in the computer lab was writing bug software, and viruses. They were not sure how to handle the situation further than expulsion from the lab, but they knew something had to be done about what he was doing. They notified his parents, who in turn made sure that he never got to another computer for the rest of the school year unsupervised.

Gradating for high school at 16 Joseph did go very far with his interests. He got a job at a computer store where he would eventually buy and assemble his computer, only the first of many. His room was transformed into a small data server with four computers that he used for various tasks seeming to blur the line between what is legal and not. Now 17 Joseph can find his way around most any computer system, bypass locked software, and with is tablet he can access whatever he comes across.

Inventory:
Smart watch that connects to both his smartphone and tablet (these never leave his possession.)
Pocket ark welder that looks like a screwdriver.
Spare batteries for his devices as well as chargers.

Money:
His family does not have a lot of money; his father works a middle employment job at a law firm.

Other:
His Family didn’t really ‘win’ this trip. Joseph was able to figure out the contest system, and flooded it with useless raw data nested with their submission. The system interpreted the raw data as junk, but didn’t catch to request. After the system dumped the useless data into its trash holding rather than deleting the request, The data did its work at re-sending the request from the trash file. The system, in return, did not know how to handle the request as it was labeled submission request, as internal trash, and from an external source. This caused the system to crash temporarily, and when it came back online the request had mysteriously ended up in the accepted winners file.