Top 10 most famous hackers
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4. Robert Tappan Morris
In 1988, the graduate student from Harvard University decided to test the size of the Internet. He created the Morris worm will infect 6,000 Unix machines by doing crasher. Millions of dollars of damage will then be estimated.
It was probably the first worm of this kind. Morris was finally captured, fined, sentenced to three years probation and 400 hours of community service.
The disk used to write the worm is now available in the Boston Science Museum. And Morris is now a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
It was probably the first worm of this kind. Morris was finally captured, fined, sentenced to three years probation and 400 hours of community service.
The disk used to write the worm is now available in the Boston Science Museum. And Morris is now a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
3. Adrian Limo
Adrian Lamo was born in Boston in 1981. He was a vagabond lifestyle, he traveled to many Internet cafes Internet cafes through libraries and other wireless access points. It will be introduced in computer networks of large companies such as Yahoo !, Microsoft and New York Times.
He explains that he did it for fun and would continue explaining the problem immediately to the responsible systems and networks. It will also be involved in WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning denounce scandal that he was also involved in the case.
2. Kevin Poulsen
The black hat hacker in the 80s, Kevin Poulsen, became popular when he "earned" a Porsche by hacking into a radio station.
Indeed, a radio station in Los Angeles (KIIS-FM) launches a radio contest in which the listener who calls 102nd win a Porsche. Kevin, along with two friends enter the radio telephone system to make sure to be the 102nd caller and win the prize. The FBI goes looking for him while Kevin is hiding a fugitive. It will however be stopped in 1991.
He plead guilty and was sentenced to four years and three months in prison, the heaviest sentence ever imposed at the time. After leaving prison, Kevin now works as a journalist for Wired News.
1. Kevin Mitnick
