World's Best Known Hackers.
Steve Wozniak:
Tim Berners-Lee:
The World Wide Web was not on his mind when Lee and a friend were caught hacking at the Oxford University. Both were banned from using the university's computers during their study tenure. Maybe that's why Lee soldered one himself using iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and and old television.
Linus Torvalds:
The star of the ultimate hacking tale. Torvalds cobbled together a makeshift operating system titles 'Linux' and shared the program at an online forum. Feeds poured in with fixes, improvements and new features. Code contribution became the USP of Linux, an operating system built on central hacker ethnic: Free for all.
Tsutomu Shimomura:
Richard Stallman:
Dubbed the father of free software, he earned the badhe as a 'staff hacker' at MIT where he cracked a password system. He moved ob to tinkering with the code of a printer and finally ended up with the big one: The GNU project that makes massively free softwares.
Kevin Mitnick:
The US Department of Justice says he was "the most wanted computer criminal of United States History". Mitnick started by bypassing punch cards to hitch free rides on LA busses at 14. Later he hacked databases of companies like Motorola and Nokia.
Kevin Poulsen:
Law officers think he was "the computer Hannibal Lecter of computer crime" but hackers knew him as Dark Dante. Poulsen's biggest hit: cracking LA radio phone lines to ensure he was caller number 102 slated to win a Porsche.
Co-founder of Apple and the company's original engineering brain, Wozniak got his first kicks out of the Blue Box: a phone phreaking device that allowed him and Steve Jobs to make long distance calls for free by imitating the tones that routed signals on the AT&T network. The duo sold more than 100 boxes for $150 each.
Tim Berners-Lee:
Linus Torvalds:
Tsutomu Shimomura:
Not an intuitive hacker, he was prodded ti showcase his skills when Kevin Mitnick hacked Shimomura's home computer. The result: a good cop bad cop chase begun and Kevin ended up in jail. Plus, it does not end here, Shimomura hacked Mitnick's cellphone to trace him to an appartment near Raleigh's Durham International Airport.
Richard Stallman:
Kevin Mitnick:
The US Department of Justice says he was "the most wanted computer criminal of United States History". Mitnick started by bypassing punch cards to hitch free rides on LA busses at 14. Later he hacked databases of companies like Motorola and Nokia.
Kevin Poulsen:
Law officers think he was "the computer Hannibal Lecter of computer crime" but hackers knew him as Dark Dante. Poulsen's biggest hit: cracking LA radio phone lines to ensure he was caller number 102 slated to win a Porsche.
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