Hacker's Hall of Fame

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I didn't know where else to post this so i put it in the Misc. security discussions.. perhaps it should be in the General Chitchat form but ah well.. Here's a list of the hacker's hall of fame. taken from the fine folks at discovery.

Richard Stallman hacker of the old school, Stallman walked in off the street and got a job at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1971

Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson The driving creative force behind Bell Labs' legendary computer science operating group, Ritchie and Thompson created UNIX in 1969.

John Draper Figured out how to make free phone calls using a plastic prize whistle he found in a cereal box.

Mark Abene Inspired thousands of teenagers around the country to "study" the internal workings of our nation's phone system.


Robert Morris This Cornell University graduate student accidentally unleashed an Internet worm in 1988.


Kevin Mitnick The first hacker to have his face immortalized on an FBI "Most Wanted" poster.

URL=http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/hackers/bio/bio_07.html]Kevin Puolsen[/URL] In 1990 Poulsen took over all telephone lines going into Los Angeles area radio station KIIS-FM to win a call-in contest.

Johan Helsingius Operated the world's most popular anonymous remailer, called penet.fi, until he closed up shop in September 1996.

Vladimir Levin This mathematician allegedly masterminded the Russian hacker gang that tricked Citibank's computers into spitting out $10 million.

Steve Wozniak The co-founder of Apple Computer got his start making devices for phone phreaking.

Tsutomu Shimomura Shimomura outhacked and outsmarted Kevin Mitnick, the nation's most infamous cracker/phreaker, in early 1994.

Linus Torvalds Torvalds was a computer science student at the University of Helsinki when he wrote the operating system Linux in 1991.



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MsMittens

petemcevoy

Simon Templer

..And a few others I'll add latr

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[freeOn]

You forgot Negative - One of the most notorius flamers at AO!

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Oops, I forgot Terr

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Wha?...did I say something?

[rcgreen]

Don't forget me!
I hacked all the national news
networks and fooled the world
into believing that some arab
flew a jetliner into the
World Trade Center.

[chsh]

Originally posted by rcgreen
Don't forget me!
I hacked all the national news
networks and fooled the world
into believing that some arab
flew a jetliner into the
World Trade Center.

Umm.... Does anyone else think this is at the very least in incredibly bad taste?

[casper3699]

Does anyone notice that the founders of Apple and Linux are on there but the founder of MicroShaft is not on there?

[souleman]

Why are Kevin Mitnick and Polsen on the list? Why not the guys from MOD and LOD. They were responsibele for the Sun Devil raids (or whatever they were called). Or any other person who has ever had a book written about them or been included in a book. Or what about all the people listed on attrition or any other archive? The people on that list are so varied from engineer to programmer to cracker. What do they define as a hacker?

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Everyone just add yourself/others as you see needed. I didn't write the list my self. It came from discovery. Ask them why those ppl were or weren't included. Feel free to post a new thread and make a list of AO hacker's hall of fame.. or post a poll to determine who should be in it. Just a suggestion.

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