Top Most Famous Hackers of All Time
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Top Most Famous Hackers of All Time
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#2It's amazing how the majority of black hat hackers listed turned out to be successful bussiness men once they "see the error of their ways"
It appears that they compromised systems because they were bored, or merely wanted to prove it could be done.
Thanks for the article, good read.
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#3The Top Most? ... of All Time?
They must be really good.
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#4The list of the most famous hackers has been made over and over again and hasn't changed a whole lot (RTM, Mitnick v. Shimomura, ...), but it seems like the list of famous hacks continues to grow. Are these old school famous hackers really so famous they're that can't be unseated, or are the new jacks just getting the short end of the stick?
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#5Um, "stealing software worth 1.7 million dollars"? Software to do what, exactly? To run the environmental control system on IIS. Ok. So, what exactly does the development cost of the software have to do with the fact that Jonathan James downloaded the code? This makes it sound like NASA was out $1.7 million. Idiot reporters.
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#6No tributes to Fravia? The list seems incomplete..
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#7Um, "stealing software worth 1.7 million dollars"? Software to do what, exactly? To run the environmental control system on IIS. Ok. So, what exactly does the development cost of the software have to do with the fact that Jonathan James downloaded the code? This makes it sound like NASA was out $1.7 million. Idiot reporters.
That's not the worst part. From the article:
"Today, James asserts that he's learned his lesson and might start a computer security company."
However, if you read the Wikipedia page THAT THEY LINKED TO IN THE ARTICLE you'll learn that Jonathan James committed suicide in 2008.
I believe the Internet term for this is "FAIL".
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#8Um, "stealing software worth 1.7 million dollars"? Software to do what, exactly? To run the environmental control system on IIS. Ok. So, what exactly does the development cost of the software have to do with the fact that Jonathan James downloaded the code? This makes it sound like NASA was out $1.7 million. Idiot reporters.
Oh it gets even better! He claimed that the software was crap! 1.7 Million dollars of crap to be exact!
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#9Where is Jon Lech Johansen, aka DVD John? Of DeCSS fame (for playing your purchased DVD in Linux), PyMusique (iTunes purchased music without DRM).
And don't forget this ad about doubleTwist:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/05/apple-gets-pwned-sf-sto...
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#10Wouldn't you think that the best hackers of all time are the ones we've never heard of? The ones who walked away with the money, rather than the ones that did jail time?