Yt***

Bryce Case, Jr. (b. August 23, 1982), otherwise known as YT*** (pronounced "whitey ***"), is a former ***^{Black hat} most known for defacing the webpages of several federal^{Federal government of the United States} and municipal government websites in the United States, as well as several in private industry at the age of 17. Case later became known for his work as a Nerdcore hip hop artist.

Childhood

Case was born in La Mirada, California, United States.

He has stated in interviews that he was exposed to computers by his father and mother, learning to program BASIC from age 4. From there, his father taught him how to navigate MSDOS^MS-DOS and System V. Before long, he was involved in the local bulletin board systems and learning various other programming languages by reading books and examples.

Case attended William J. Palmer High School in Colorado Springs, dropping out of high school at the age of 17 to focus on a career in the information technology field.

***ing activities

In 1999, Case gained notoriety, media coverage, and a restitution bill for defacing the web site of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center with a modified frontend for a commonly used msadc.pl exploit. Other United States government^{Federal government of the United States} websites that were ***ed include the Bureau of Land Management's national training center and the Defense Contract Audit Agency. At least 40 other websites were tampered with by Case, including Airspace USA, the bank Altamira^{National Bank of Canada}, Nissan Motors, Honda, the monitoring station for the United States Geological Survey and the Texas Department of Public Safety. Case stated he believed he was "on the good side" as he broke into company websites to alert them of security problems, not cause harm. In May, 2000 Case was charged with criminal mischief and computer crime for breaking into the Colorado Springs^{Colorado Springs, Colorado} city website, causing an estimated $25,000 in damages.Case performs as an MC^{Master of Ceremonies} and a DJ^{Disk jockey} under the name Yt***. He is best known for his work in the genre of Nerdcore hip-hop, in 2005 producing the album NerdRap Entertainment System. The album was created by adding vocals to re-mixed digital music from original Nintendo^{Nintendo Entertainment System} games, and was described in Newsweek as a "classic of the style."

In Las Vegas^{Las Vegas metropolitan area}, Case performed in 2006 at the Consumer Electronics Show and in 2007 at the Players Ball; during the latter Case appeared with rappers Xzibit, Ice Cube and Too Short.

Case runs an independent record label, Nerdy South Records.*stc is the greatest (2004) (as a member of spamtec)
*Nerdrap Entertainment System (2005) (solo effort)
*still the greatest (2005) (as a member of spamtec)
*Rhyme Torrents Volumes I & II (2006)
*Nerd Life (2006) (solo effort)
*Dirty Nerdy (2007) (featuring many other nerdcore artists)
*8-Bit Diagrams (2008) (as a member of 8-Bit Boys)
*Serious Business EP (2008) (featuring Elijah Lucian)
*The Digital Gangster LP (2008) (with MC Lars)
*Invasion of the Mic Snatchers (2008) (As part of the Sinister Six)
*dcpd bangerz vol. 1 (2009) (featuring the Dekalb County, Georgia Police Force)
*Chrono Nurga vol. 1 (2009) (solo effort)