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Hackers Hall of Fame
An anonymous reader writes "tlc.discovery.com has a nice feature called Hackers Hall of Fame. They have included 15 bios of modern and not so modern hackers and crackers. " Definitely a few names that probably don't deserve to be on the list, but for the most part this is a good list.
I think one of the criteria may have been "worst photo"
"Definitely a few names that probably don't deserve to be on the list"
/pick one
Definitely probably?
Straight from the article:
Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson
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An elegant, open operating system for minicomputers, UNIX helped users with general computing, word processing and networking, and soon became a standard language.
Ah well. At least they got 90% of that article right... *sigh*
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
Man, I still remember when he rooted my VCR and had it constantly play Space Quest 2 for hours!
Wearing pants should always be optional.
Is she in the hackers hall of fame? Perhaps Matthew Lillard as well? Where are AcidBurn and ZeroCool when you need 'em?
Who is this Linus Torvalds guy? ... yeahh
Must be one of those lunatics, who think they can write an entire OS and change the world
Em Emalb
Handle: (door knob)
Claim to fame: A hacker of the old skool (fool), Em Emalb walked in off the street and got a job
at McDonald's Artificial Meat Lab in 1975. He was an undergraduate at Hardees at the time.
Disturbed that meat was murder, Em Emalb later founded the Free Meat Foundation.
First encountered a computer: In 1991, at the place known as his bedroom. He was 16 years old.
Unusual tools: In the 1980s Em Emalb left McDonald's payroll but continued to work from a register at McDonalds.
Here he created a new operating system called GFries -- short for GNU's Fries really irritate everyone, sucka.
Little-known fact: Recipient of minimum wage for several years.
Current status: Em Emalb has just finished reading a book, Penthouse Letters, a tribute to hot sweaty sex.
This book is available via Penthouse, Inc.
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Actually, as I'm thinking about it.. hacking is fairly easy.. I've watched several hollywood movies and I think that I am now certified to do hacking... infact let me see.. based on what I've learned you bring up an SSH prompt and then start banging away at keys and the password is always something like 'password', 'opensesame', or some random array of characters that you will just happen to hit with your hand... it's really very easy!
Which hacked code? And which preferred to hack away at victims' corpses instead?
As well, he *hacked* the mouse away from IBM and *hacked* the GUI away from Apple.
I read a book on the "masters of deception" many years ago. Phiber Optik became a major hero and roll model for me. I even got kind of good at using the aging telenet network to make free longdistance calls to Europe via global outdials. One of the characters mentioned in the book was also Robert T. Morris, refered to I believe just as 'rtm.' At about this time (i was 12) I started fiddling with FreeBSD, and eventually my uncle gave me a copy of RH Linux. I then started reading a lot of FSF propaganda. I started to confuse RTM and RMS. My fascination with RTM eventually turned itself into a fascination with RMS out of sheer stupidity on my part (hey, i was like 13. what the hell did i know). Then i started to think that RMS was full of it, went back to FreeBSD. Then i got turned on to communism by some fellow Irish Republicans, started to think RMS kickced ass, became as psycho HURD user, realised HURD was a piece of shit and bought a Macintosh. Now I get to be a hypocrit, especially since I am an ex phreak and [ex]decent programmer (i patched the vfat file system driver in the linux kernel once...that was about the height of my career), i've realised that i do infact hate the world wide web and now at the age of 20, after realising that computers are an instrument of fascism and that so-called "socialist" intellectuals and academics are all counter-revolutionary (Lenin, Mao, Chirac), I've quit school to become a carpenter so my fiance and i can move back to Ireland and have a nice country life and shoot loyalists. actually, this story kind of sucks....
2 1337 4 u!
I think this quote from Office Space sums it up nicely...
SAMIR: How come no one in this country can pronounce my name right? It's Na-gee-een-ah-jah. Nagaenajar
MICHAEL: At least your name isn't Michael Bolton.
SAMIR: Michael, there's nothing wrong with that name.
MICHAEL: There was nothing wrong with it. Until I was about nine years old and that no-talent assclown became famous and started winning Grammys.
SAMIR: Well, why don't just go by Mike, instead of Michael?
MICHAEL: WHY SHOULD I CHANGE IT? HE'S THE ONE WHO SUCKS.
------> why should hackers change their name if others don't get it right? Thats nonsense. Besides, hackers would come up with a better term and the unenlighten will still lump hackers/crackers together.
Oh, how times have changed...
What happened, Bill?
--Stephen
Did you ever notice that *nix doesn't even cover Linux?
Why isn't the inventor of the internet, Al Gore, on the list?
nah, in movies they just run GL_Hack a fully interactive OpenGL 3D GUI that removes all the difficulty from hacking, just drag the icon for each type of potential attack onto the representation of the computer you want to attack, if the icon turns from blue to red try a different attack, if it turns green double click the now green icon ann you will automatically rootkit the desired machine, and beware of the white points representing Admins, if they close in to the targeted computer before you disconnect and wipe the logs you will be caught
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
SSH? Don't be fool. Every real cracker knows you use telnet.
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Albert Einstein
Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I'd imagine.
He's married with two daughters.
He is married to his 2 daughters? That's sick dude!
Open Source Java Web Forum with LDAP authentication
From the article (enjoy):
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"Vladimir Levin
Unusual tools: Along with a computer, computer games and disks, Russian police confiscated a camcorder, music speakers and a TV set from Levin's apartment."
Wow, a TV is indeed an unusual tool. Especially in communist Russia! (wait, it's no longer communist - someone tell Washington!) Was it a color TV? And "music speakers," you say? God damn, that's unusual! More unusual than the author's strange vocabulary.. Almost makes one think if he's a RUSSIAN SPY!
"Current status:
Citibank has since begun using the Dynamic Encryption Card, a security system so tight that no other financial institution in the world has it."
Why does this feel like I'm reading the New York Post? Or is it a comic book that I'm thinking of? Or is it Da Source? That shit's tight, cuz!
Another gem:
"Richard Stallman
Handle: None (nothing to hide!)"
Is this article written by the gov't? Jeez. A shame that this passes for journalism in this country.
I just stopped reading this junk after the first page and randomly-clicked Vladimir.
Must-not-watch TV!
Yeah, and he's married to two of them! *Shudder*.
This top X list reminds me of that funny game Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?. (warning: flash site).
Speak truth to power.
Actually, the truely great hackers would have a "?" where the photo is and would have a bio like
...
Handle: "The Dark Sultan"
Age: Unknown.
Origin: Unknown.
Location: Unknown.
MO: Signs all hacks with a picture of an sultan holding a sword that's encrusted with microchips.
Claims to Fame:
Replaced all the photo data in the NSA's badge security system with pictures of bozo the clown.
Inserted a software patch into AT&T's SINAP software that patched all directory assistance calls to the CEO's personal phone.
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
... that Linus is bigamist: "He's married with two daughters." :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Press any key to reboot...
Crap! I'm still looking for that damn 'any' key.
Now if only I can get someone to fix the cupholder on my computer...
-- The Genesis project? What's that?
In his early days Gates was a hacker, more so than a lot of self-described Slashdot 'hackers' whose only tools are a phillips screwdriver (because they're 'hardware experts') and Linux installation CDs (because they're 'software experts').
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Many hackers, including Woz, have delved into the dark side, if just to gain more understanding of it.
That is like saying you read playboy just for the articles.
-Sean
Movies can teach us a lot. I learned how to hot wire a car from a Steven Seagal movie once. 1. Open the hood of the car. 2. Take the two bare wires and touch them together. That's it.
Everyone in films is so swish on computers. Hacking into the Pentagon computer... [computer noises] okay... double-click on "Yes"...
Ooh, password protected! Twenty billion possible chances! Okaaaay... uhhhhhhh.... 'Jeff'.
Hey!
"How did you know?"
"The guy who made this software was called Jeff Jeffty Jeff! And he was born on the first of Jeff, nineteen-Jeffty-Jeff..."
~Eddie Izzard, "Glorious"
qntm.org
...actually. That part would be kinda cool. I'd feel like I'm actually accomplishing something whenever I log into Slashdot.
HI, MY NAME IS ISAAC.