Overview
DedSec is a secret hacking collective featured in the Watch Dogs series. Some of their most noteworthy members include Clara Lille (who directly assists Aiden Pearce), Marcus Holloway, and his band of hackers which include Wrench, Sitara, Josh, and until his death, Horatio.
DESCRIPTION
DedSec is a notorious hacking collective that operates in Watch Dogs rendition of Chicago. They are not affiliated with Aiden Pearce, though he does have dealings with some of its members. The group itself is opposed to the implementation and use of the CTOS and has the objective of proving that the system is flawed and unnecessary. The group’s members hack into various CTOS systems for destructive purposes in order to highlight its weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
One way in which DedSec have voiced their opinion and made their presence known to the public was through their seizure of the CTOS’ official website. The website was seized and then subsequently transformed into an ambiguous advertisement page. The page was turned entirely black and covered with a DedSec logo, formed from ASCII characters. Similarly, tagging and graffiti has been sprayed onto a number of CTOS advertisement media and other Chicago signposts.
Audio logs left by one of their members, G1gg1L3s, reveals that DedSec’s leaders are referred to as the “Council of Daves”, or just “the Daves”, because they all include the name Dave in their usernames in online communications.
It is revealed by Clara (under the identity “BadBoy17”) that DedSec has an aggressive side, where they unsuccessfully tried to attack a CTOS center in The Loop, and as a result of that failed attack, Blume added more armed guards to the center. This is given further credibility during the end credits of Watch_Dogs, where a broadcast states they won’t tolerate being ignored any longer, and in Watch_Dogs 2, where in one audio log left by another of their members, Horatio Carlin, he states that “if there was a bar ranging from “activist” to “anarchist”, [they]’d probably fill the whole damn thing”; additionally, that same audio log implies there are multiple branches of DedSec, as Horatio stated that he ran a few ops with the Council of Daves to see what worked for them and try to adapt it to the members of the Bay Area, before realising that the Chicago and San Francisco Branches of DedSec couldn’t be more different from each other.