Originally posted here by catch
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionar...nary&va=hacker

English is organic... stop being elitist and deal with it.

There have been many geniuses in the field of information security... yet sadly they and their works are largely overlooked, because... like all geniuses they are too far beyond the general public (in this case the general community security community) to be appreciated much beyond their immediate peer group.

James Anderson (doesn't even have a wikipedia entry)
This guy was light years ahead of everyone, back in the early 70's he wrote a series of papers titled "Computer Security Technology Planning Study" that outlined the first concepts of a security kernel including formal methods to mathematically prove this kernel operated correctly, automated host based intrusion detection systems, buffer overflow attacks, and modifications required to create "safe" programming languages.
In 1980 he published another paper that addressed a structured approach to compromising computer systems (internally and externally)... with the intent of improving audit trails titled "Computer Security Threat Monitoring and Surveillance" that addresses quantifying normal use and the concept of secure subsystems.

David Bell (also lacks a wikipedia entry)
Along with Len LaPadula developed the first usable formal state transition model to deal with computer security back in the mid-70s.

Richard Bisbey (Oh my... also lacks a Wikipedia entry, guess I have my weekend cut out for me)
Along Dennis Hollingsworth developed what was essentially the first Capabilities Maturity Model back in 1978 (about 15 years before Carnegie Mellon came up with the CMMs) though it was specifically for operating system security.

Jonathan Millen (wikipedia has never seemed so useless to me)
Did a lot of work with Mathlab back in the early 70s and then was a pioneer in formal analysis of covert channels as well as trusted system evaluations.

I think any of these people compare quite favorably against someone who has done little more than maintain the Jargon File. (which he modies at will to support his political stance apparently)

Maybe I should write a tutorial... cause seriously, the list of unappreciated "hackers" goes on and on.

cheers,

catch


Did you buy the ACM portal library, if so is it worth it? It's not letting me see a pdf.

Ware, W. H., ed., Security Controls for Computer Systems:
Report of Defense Science Board Task Force on Computer
Security, AD # A076617/0, Rand Corporation, Santa
Monica, Calif., February 1970, reissued October 1979.

**edit: found a free one http://www.rand.org/publications/R/R609.1/R609.1.html