Erudito

Erudito was an individual who was aware of Abstergo Industries' secret activities. He had been watching the progress of the Abstergo recruits who were put in the DDS, observing the bulk memory dumps taken from them in the pretense of creating an extensive network of historical data. The true purpose of this project was only known to Abstergo and Erudito himself.

Erudito has shown his advanced capabilities, in that he is able to easily hack into the DDS to leave messages and unlock previously blocked memories. He also communicates with the Abstergo recruits through e-mail, sharing secret information about the true purpose of the project they are participating in.

ARG
An alternate reality game is featured through datadumpscanner, an Abstergo data dump on Twitter. From time to time Erudito "hacks" into the system to interact through the account with users. The times Erudito has interacted through this method were: Friday, October 15, 2010; Friday, October 29, 2010; Friday, November 12, 2010; Friday, December 03, 2010; and Monday, December 17.

Abstergo Sweater
On Thursday, January 13, 2011, anyone who had ordered an Abstergo staff sweater through Ubiworkshop recieved an email from Erudito explaining the binary code on the back of it. The email goes as follows.

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The Puzzle being you have to realise the binary code is login, add that to the end of the url, and use your unique code to access the Abstergo company email inbox. There are several other sections in the inbox as well as along the top of the bag which can not be accessed except with a higher security level (BETA 3+), suggesting that there will be more things like this in the future.

Trivia

 * "Erudito" is Italian for "scholar" or "learned one," which is appropriate considering how much information he has gathered on Abstergo.
 * When you "like" Gamestop on Facebook, you get an item called Erudito's Network for Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy, which gives you a higher probability to receive XP, Florins or chance items. Since the release of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, the code (7D05C12C) is no longer on Gamestop's Facebook page.
 * In Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Desmond Miles receives an e-mail from Erudito, advising him to "Stay in the loop". The e-mail gives Desmond the passwords to the e-mail accounts of his fellow Assassins Rebecca Crane, Shaun Hastings and Lucy Stillman.
 * The letters of "ERUDITO", when rearranged spell out "UDITORE" (In English "Auditor"), and with only an A [Assassin's symbol] added spells AUDITORE.