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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 $1.7 million
Adrian Lamo
Sentence: six months of home confinement and two years of probation, 65.000$ 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
Kevin Mitnick
Crimes:
Breaking into the Digital Equipment Corporation's computer network and stealing software Half year "coast-to-coast hacking spree"
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
Crime:
Creator of the Morris Worm - the first computer worm to be unleashed on the Internet
Stephen Wozniak
Achievements:
Blue boxes - devices that bypass telephoneswitching mechanisms to make free longdistance calls. The computer as a fully assembled PC board
Awards:
Tim Berners-Lee
Linus Torvalds
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."
Tsutomu Shimomura
Was hacked by Kevin Mitnick and made it his cause to help the FBI capture him.