The world’s most famous hackers &

How they embarrassed technology

Let’s Start

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone

Exactly two years later, a group of teenage boys were hired tooperate 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 -1960’s

Companies used main frame computers which were huge, costly and slow.

1950 -1960’s

Programmers had to literally fight 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 1970’s John Draper discovers phreaking tool allowing users to make long distance calls without the financial charges. John admits calling White House during President Nixon’s adminis-tration and gave them president’s secret code ‘OLYMPUS’.

Following hacker’s footstep

We have always been shamelessabout 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 1980’s, 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 software’s. Convicted of stealing long distance codes from two telecommunication companies.

Jonathan James

He is the first juvenile to be sent to prison for hacking. He gainedlot of attention by hacking in to government agencies such as Department of defense, USA and NASA systems.

Vladimir Levin

Russian hacker, broke in to Citibank’s network and transferredfunds 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 ‘Mafia 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 flaws in system.

Without them internet wouldn’t have improved/expanded.

Let’s Stop

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