He claims to be 21 years old, a student of software engineering in Tehran who reveres Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and despises dissidents in his country. He claims to be Iranian, but with no ties to the Iranian Cyber Army. Rather, ComodoHacker says he is an individual. Comodohacker was plainspoken about his motivations. “My country should have control over Google, Skype, Yahoo, etc.,” he said by e-mail. “I’m breaking all encryption algorithms and giving power to my country to control all of them.”