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Top 10 Most Famous Hackers of All Time

Pajevi Tamara 165/07

Black Hat Hackers vs. White Hat Hackers


black hats exploit computer systems. They are the ones you've seen on the news being hauled away for cybercrimes. Some of them do it for fun and curiosity, while others are looking for personal gain. white hats often work as certified "Ethical Hackers" hired by companies to test the integrity of their systems. Others, operate without company permission by bending but not breaking laws and in the process have created some really cool stuff.

Black Hat Hackers

Jonathan James
First juvenile to be sent to prison for hacking, served six months in prison Crimes:
Installed a backdoor into a Defense Threat Reduction Agency server Cracked into NASA computers, stealing software worth approximately $1.7 million

Black Hat Hackers

Adrian Lamo
Sentence: six months of home confinement and two years of probation, 65.000$ in restitution Crimes:
Penetration testing, in which he found flaws in security, exploited them and then informed companies of their shortcomings (Yahoo!, Bank of America) Brake into The New York Times' intranet

Black Hat Hackers

Kevin Mitnick
Crimes:
Breaking into the Digital Equipment Corporation's computer network and stealing software Half year "coast-to-coast hacking spree"

Sentence: five years in prison, 8 months of it in solitary confinement

Black Hat Hackers

Kevin Poulsen
Sentence: five years in prison Crimes:
KIIS-FM hack was accomplished by taking over all of the station's phone lines Hack of federal investigation database and federal computers for wiretap information

Black Hat Hackers

Robert Tappan Morris


Sentence: years' probation, 400 hours of community
service and a fine of $10,500

Crime:
Creator of the Morris Worm - the first computer worm to be unleashed on the Internet

White Hat Hackers

Stephen Wozniak
Achievements:
Blue boxes - devices that bypass telephoneswitching mechanisms to make free longdistance calls. The computer as a fully assembled PC board

Awards:

the National Medal of Technology, the National Inventors Hall of Fame

White Hat Hackers

Tim Berners-Lee

The World Wide Web Awards: the Millennium Technology Prize.

White Hat Hackers

Linus Torvalds

The Linux operating system


Torvalds: "I just want to have fun making the best damn operating system I can."

White Hat Hackers

Richard Stallman
The GNU Project, which was founded to develop a free operating system
Stallman: "Non-free software keeps users divided and helpless, forbidden to share it and unable to change it. A free operating system is essential for people to be able to use computers in freedom."

White Hat Hackers

Tsutomu Shimomura

Was hacked by Kevin Mitnick and made it his cause to help the FBI capture him.

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