Buddy Dumpskin

Buddy Dumpskin (d. 12 April 2144) was a virtual reality entrepreneur who set up a new company, Who's Who in the Net, in an attempt to prevent visualization code theft among corporations doing business in the VR Net.

Launched on 1 April 2144, Who's Who in the Net was claimed to employ a sophisticated hunter-tracker program which used ID Chips to verify the identity of holographic virtual alter egos conducting transactions on the Net. The company was forecast to be worth millions of credits.

Dumpskin was found dead of an apparent suicide on 12 April 2144. Police chief Darryl King reported that no trace of the Who's Who in the Net program was found on Dumpskin's computer – and in fact the entire computer memory had been wiped clean. Police suspected that the reported verification process had been bogus and that Dumpskin took his own life before the fraud was revealed, but investigations were inconclusive.