The Collusion Syndicate, formerly the Collusion Group and sometimes spelled Collu5ion, C0llu5i0n or C011u5i0n, was a Computer Security and Internet Politics Special Interest Group (SIG) founded in 1995 and effectively disbanded around 2002.

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The Collusion Group was founded in 1995 by technologist Tex Mignog, aka the TexorcisT (sic) in Dallas, Texas before moving the headquarters to Austin, Texas in 1997. Founding members included individuals that all operated anonymously using hacker pseudonyms (called "handles" or "nyms") including the TexorcisT, Progress, Sfear (sic), Anormal, StripE (sic) and Elvirus. The membership of this organization grew to an estimated 30+ by 1999 and was not localized to its headquarters in Austin, Texas, with members in other states, countries and continents. The group made numerous open appearances at computer security events such as H.O.P.E. and DefCon and was often quoted by the media on computer related security, political and cultural issues.

The group was well known for its online publication, www.Collusion.org Archived 2017-09-17 at the Wayback Machine ^[1] and also founded and financed other events such as the "irQconflict", the largest seasonal computer gaming tournament in the South-Central US.

The group was often interviewed with regard to Internet security issues by reporters for a variety of media outlets, some examples being KVUE News ^{[2] [3] [4]} ,^[5] the Austin American Statesman and Washington Post ,^[6] and The New York Times .^[7]

The Collusion Syndicate began publishing articles written by its members and others that submitted articles in 1997 on their site, www.Collusion.org Archived 2017-09-17 at the Wayback Machine, their stated mission being to "Learn all that is Learnable". This site won awards including a Best of Austin ^[8] in 2000 by the Austin Chronicle where the site was described as "an edgy cabal of net-savvy punks and vinyl-scratching, video-gaming malcontents, laying it down in no uncertain terms with a lot of dark backgrounds and urban-toothed graphics and in-your-face-yo rants."

Collusion Syndicate research on SIPRNet has been referenced by the SANS Institute .^[9]

Xchicago has published tips by Collusion's founder, TexorcisT, on Google Hacking.^[10]

The group's work and research is referenced in many books including Steal This Computer Book 4.0: What They Won't Tell You about the Internet,^[11] Mac OS X Maximum Security^[12] and Anarchitexts: Voices from the Global Digital Resistance.^[13]

The group may have been tied to Assassination Politics as evidenced by declassified documents.^[14]

• 2600 The Hacker Quarterly
• Phrack
• Legion of Doom
• Chaos Computer Club
• Cult of the Dead Cow
• l0pht
• Crypto-anarchism
• Culture jamming
• E-democracy
• Hacker culture
• Hacker ethic
• Internet activism