Top 10 most famous hackers
10. John Draper
This phreaker ("Pirate's phone") whose real name is John Draper became famous because he managed to make free long distance calls with a whistle found in Cap'n Crunch cereal box.
Indeed, the sound of this whistle had a frequency of 2600 Hertz, the same frequency as a long-distance line unoccupied continuously emitted to indicate to a telephone exchange is ready to receive a call.
The phreaker called a remote toll opening an unused line that did not record billing.
Before the remote office called participant answers, the tone emitted phreaker 2600 Hertz.
9. Steve Jobs et Steve Wozniak
We put them together because they have several things in common, the two famous founders of Apple Computer have spent their youth as hackers.
Before moving to Apple, they spent their days building called Blue Box devices that allowed the whistle like John Draper to place long distance calls without paying a cent. They then started selling these devices to their classmates at the University of California.
We could add Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook founder) Bill Gates (Microsoft founder), Linus Torvalds (Linux kernel Founder) who are also all hackers.
Before moving to Apple, they spent their days building called Blue Box devices that allowed the whistle like John Draper to place long distance calls without paying a cent. They then started selling these devices to their classmates at the University of California.
We could add Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook founder) Bill Gates (Microsoft founder), Linus Torvalds (Linux kernel Founder) who are also all hackers.
8. David Smith
All the popularity of David Smith came after creation of the worm "Melissa" March 26, 1999.
The worm was saturated messaging systems by spreading user to user via infected emails (there are more than 60,000). Damage estimates were $ 385 million. Smith, who was arrested, sentenced to 2 years in prison and $ 5,000 fine said the worm was never intended to cause damage.
The first time the Melissa worm was hidden, it was in a file containing pornographic sites passwords. Smith says that the name Melissa has encountered a dancer during a trip to Florida.
7. George Hotz alias GeoHot
George Hotz is an American hacker known for unlocking the iPhone (the famous jailbreak) and its release the Playstation 3.
The jailbreak of making jump protections of devices running on the iOS operating system, providing access to all features of it, and making it possible to download and install applications without paying.
When Sony was attacked, allegedly by the group Anonymous, Hotz said he was not responsible for the attack.
6. Michael Calce alias MafiaBoy
Il n’avait que 15 ans à l’époque, et explique aujourd’hui qu’il n’était pas professionnel, loin de là, il utilisait les programmes que ses copains avaient fait.
Calce exploitait des sites web principalement pour avoir de la renommée et pour montrer sa dominance dans son groupe. Il travaille aujourd’hui pour une entreprise de sécurité informatique.
5. Gary McKinnon
