The worlds most famous hackers

&
How they embarrassed technology
Lets Start
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone
Exactly two years later, a group of teenage boys were hired to
operate the switchboard but they were more interested in
knowing how the system works rather than operating. They
tried to hack the system and got kicked out. The word Hack
gained prominence thereafter.
First attempt to hack a system
1950 -1960s
Companies used main frame computers which were
huge, costly and slow.
1950 -1960s
Programmers had to literally ght for the access time due to
cost involved. The brightest among them discovered what they
called Hacks (Shortcuts) to improve the performance of
machine.
Hacker Spotted
In 1970s John Draper discovers phreaking tool allowing users
to make long distance calls without the nancial charges. John
admits calling White House during President Nixons adminis-
tration and gave them presidents secret code OLYMPUS.
Following hackers footstep
We have always been shameless
about stealing great ideas
- Steve Jobs
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs made Blue Boxes based on
Drape discovery to help people hack in to phone system for
distance calling.
Hacker = Evil
Not until 1980s, the word Hacker earns disregard when
hackers used technology for questionable gains.
1986: US Congress passes the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, The Electronic
Communications Privacy Act to bring hackers under the law for cybercrime.
Robert Tappan Morris
Designed self replicating worm to exploit security loophole in
UNIX security system. The worm eventually affected one tenth
of entire internet computers at that time (1988).
Kevin Mitnick
Poster child of hacking world, accused of stealing 20,000 credit
card details and computer softwares. Convicted of stealing
long distance codes from two telecommunication companies.
Jonathan James
He is the rst juvenile to be sent to prison for hacking. He gained
lot of attention by hacking in to government agencies such as
Department of defense, USA and NASA systems.
Vladimir Levin
Russian hacker, broke in to Citibanks network and transferred
funds worth $3 - $10 million dollars to various accounts around
world
Kevin Poulsen
Famous for hacking phone systems, particularly radio stations.
His iconic hack on Los Angeles radio station to ensure that he
be the 102nd caller to win Porsche 944 S2 sent him behind the
bars.
Yan Romanowski
Also known as Maa Boy, he launched Denial of Service
attacks on major internet giants including e-bay, Amazon and
Yahoo which brought their services to total halt.
The Decisive point
After going through all the taglines,
should we hate them?
Yes, for what they did!
No, for what they taught!
The Desicion
We may not agree with their methods, but we have to
respect their talent in exposing the aws in system.
Without them internet wouldnt have improved/expanded.
Lets Stop
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