Uplink Corporation
Company History

 

The rise of Arunmor (2004 ad)

- A couple of industry security experts left a major corporate firm and decided to set up their own security company - Arunmor Corporation.
- They worked freelance for a while, developing stand alone internal services machines for companies to use. These systems were designed for complete remote access but very high security and traceability.
- They signed a large contract to develop a new wide area network world wide, AWAN, specifically designed for corporate use with the emphasis on security. Companies lept on board and Arunmor became very successful.

Introversion Software (2006 ad)

- A small group of graduates found a security hole in Arunmor's system, and began hiring out their services as freelance agents. They performed tasks for other companies - small time espionage, fraud etc.
- They began to make money from this and formed their own public company - Introversion Software. Their key software package was and still is Uplink, which they sell to other people. The software allows users to access Arunmors AWAN and do jobs themselves.
- Introversion Software set up new services and began working as a freelance agency for hackers, now called Agents. They used their money to develop more and more software and made the existing software into a full hacking tool - the Uplink Operating System.

Uplink Corporation ( 2008 ad)

- Introversion Software set up their own company on the AWAN - Uplink Corporation. This company was a front for the illegal activity going on underneath it.
- Arunmor knew about this group but tried to cover it all up. Uplink Agents were walking all over Arunmors security on a daily basis and were not leaving any traces. More and more companies joined up with Arunmor, including all of the key government systems, and Uplink grew at the same time, putting Arunmor in a very difficulty position.
- Introversion Software/Uplink Corporation came into the public eye and confidence fell somewhat in Arunmor, but the major corporations were now too dependent on the system to just drop it.

Resistance ( 2009 ad )

- In an attempt to improve public opinion, a number of high profile arrests were made and some major hackers went to jail. This had the desired effect of improving confidence in Arunmor, but it also pushed Uplink Corporation to total anonymity. They removed all logs of the identities of their agents, storing only the agent names and their profiles. All agents are now forced to connect through Gateways which auto-disconnect when traces are in progress, and which can be freely destroyed if necessary to remove evidence. This allows agents to simply destroy their gateways and start again without consequence if they are traced for any actions.
- As a result, Introversion Software went underground and mostly disappeared out of the public eye, surfacing only to distribute the Uplink Operating System on CD to new agents.

The general population are still not aware of the scale of Uplinks operation.