22. http://AstroTech.io
Konrad Zuse
• German engineer and computer
pioneer
• 1941, world's first functional
program-controlled Turing-complete
computer, the Z3
• first high-level programming
language
24. http://AstroTech.io
Donald Knuth
• Professor Emeritus
• Computer Scientist
• The Art of Computer Programming
• Stanford University
• "father" of the analysis of
algorithms
• creator of the TeX
25. http://AstroTech.io
Edsger W. Dijkstra
• Dutch computer scientist
• 1972 Turing Award
• shortest path-algorithm a.k.a
“Dijkstra's algorithm”
• ALGOL
• Reverse Polish Notation, Shunting
yard algorithm, Banker's algorithm,
• Dining philosophers problem
• 1968 article "A Case against the GO
TO Statement”
28. http://AstroTech.io
John Draper
• a.k.a. “Capitan Crunch”
• Phreaker
• 1971 in Cap’n Crunch cereal whistle
• emits a 2600 hertz tone
• when 2nd hole was glued up
• created Blue Box
30. http://AstroTech.io
Steve Jobs
• co-founder of Apple inc.
• saw potential in mouse-driven GUI
• founded NeXT in 1984
• CEO of Apple since 1997
• Jobs experimented with
psychedelics
• calling his LSD experiences "one of
the two or three most important
things [he had] done in [his] life".
31. http://AstroTech.io
William Henry Gates III
• a.k.a. “Bill”
• Microsoft
• wrote his first computer program on
ASR-33 Teletype terminal
• 1975 at MITS Altair 8800 based on
the Intel 8080 CPU
• distribute the interpreter as Altair
BASIC
• Sold MS-DOS to IMB for $50k
32. http://AstroTech.io
Paul Allen
• Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill
Gates
• in 1975, and began marketing a
BASIC
• In 1980, after promising to deliver
IBM a DOS
33. http://AstroTech.io
Kevin Mitnick
• a.k.a. “Condor”
• Social Engineer
• arrested in 1995
• hacked into Digital Equipment
Corporation systems, Nokia,
Motorola, Fujitsu Siemens and
many others.
36. http://AstroTech.io
Robert Morris
• professor at MIT
• created Morris Worm
• first computer worm
• co-founded the online store known
by the name Viaweb, one of the first
web-based applications, with Paul
Graham
37. http://AstroTech.io
Ian Murphy
• a.k.a. "Captain Zap"
• in 1981
• first person ever arrested for a
computer crime
• hacked into AT&T's computers and
changed their internal clocks
• People suddenly received late-night
discounts in the afternoon
38. http://AstroTech.io
Kevin Poulsen
• a.k.a. “Dark Dante”
• former black hat hacker
• takeover of the KIIS-FM phone lines
• 102nd caller and win the prize of a
Porsche 944 S2
• taught himself lock picking
• America's best-known cyber-
criminals
39. http://AstroTech.io
Linus Torvalds
• Father of linux kernel
• git
• His M.Sc. thesis was titled Linux: A
Portable Operating System.
• 35 patents worldwide
• Linus’ Law: "given enough eyeballs,
all bugs are shallow"
40. http://AstroTech.io
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
• a.k.a. “TimBL”
• British physicist,computer scientist
and MIT professor
• invented the World Wide Web
• director of the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C)
• Berners-Lee was knighted by
Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering
work
41. http://AstroTech.io
Gary McKinnon
• a.k.a. “Solo”
• Scottish systems administrator
• has been accused of the biggest
military computer hack of all time
• hacking into 97
• NASA, the US Army, US Navy,
Department of Defense and the US
Air Force computers
• Feb 2001 to Mar 2002
42. http://AstroTech.io
Raphael Gray
• 19 when he hacked computer
systems
• Jan and Feb 1999
• published details of over 6,500
credit cards
• using an £800 computer
• sent Viagra tablets to Bill Gates
• arrested in Mar 1999
43. http://AstroTech.io
Mark Abene
• a.k.a. “Phiber Optik”
• from New York City
• member of Legion of Doom and
Masters of Deception
• high-profile hacker in the early
1990s
• In 1994, one-year enprisonment
• for conspiracy and unauthorized
access to computer and telephone
systems
44. http://AstroTech.io
Jonathan James
• a.k.a. “c0mrade”
• first juvenile incarcerated for
cybercrime
• 15 when he hacked
• Defense Threat Reduction Agency,
a division of the United States
Department of Defense
• suicide May 18, 2008
45. http://AstroTech.io
Deceptive Duo
• 20-year-old Benjamin Stark
• 18-year-old Robert Lyttle
• 2002 series of high-profile break-ins
to government networks
• U.S. Navy, NASA, FAA and
Department of Defense
46. http://AstroTech.io
Adrian Lamo
• grey hat hacker
• exploited: Microsoft, the New York
Times, Lexis-Nexis, and Yahoo!
• hunt down by FBI
• surrendered to the U.S. Marshals on
September 9, 2003
• pay $65,000
• sentenced to home detention and
probation
47. http://AstroTech.io
MICHAEL CALCE
• a.k.a. “MafiaBoy”
• 15 years old
• Valentine’s Day in 2000
• DoS - 75 computers in 52 networks
• eBay, Amazon and Yahoo
• eight months of “open custody,”
• one year of probation, restricted
use of the internet, and a small fine.
48. http://AstroTech.io
Vladimir Levin
• a.k.a. “ArkanoiD”
• 1994 St. Petersburg hacker group
• tricked Citibank's computers into
spitting out $10 million
• played around with systems’ tools
(e.g. were installing and running
games) and were unnoticed by the
bank’s staff.
• three years in prison and ordered to
pay Citibank $240,015 (his share
from the heist)
50. http://AstroTech.io
Others
• Onel A. De Guzman
• Cheng Ing-Hau
• Mudge
• Jon Lech Johansen
• Dimitry Sklyarov
• David L. Smith
• Johan Helsingius
• Eric Steven Raymond
• John Perry Barlow
• Sven Jaschan
• Dennis Moran
53. http://AstroTech.io
Chaos Computer Club
• a.k.a. “CCC”
• based in Germany, founded in
1981
• 9,000 members
• "a galactic community of life forms,
independent of age, sex, race or
societal orientation, which strives
across borders for freedom of
information...."
• Supporting the principles of the
hacker ethic
54. http://AstroTech.io
Legion of Doom
• founded in 1984
• weblog: "Cult of the Dead Cow"
• Cult's stated goal of "Global
Domination Through Media
Saturation,"
• Great hacker war with Masters of
Deception
55. http://AstroTech.io
Masters of Deception
• a.k.a. “MOD”
• New York-based hackergroup
• reportedly controlled all the major
telephone RBOC's and X.
25networks
• controlling large parts of the
backbone of Internet
• levels of initiation and protection of
more sensitive knowledge
• Great hacker war with Legion of
Doom
57. http://AstroTech.io
Team Elite
• international group of computer
hackers
• who develop all kind of software
and their primary focus is security
• found security holes at
• MI5, WHO, Kaspersky Lab, Avira,
Symantec, McAfee, AVG, Eset, F-
Secure, ESA, Trend Micro, Intel,
eBay UK, PayPal, the U.S. Bank,
Bank of America, RBS WorldPay,
Visa, The New York Times, The
Telegraph, Daily Express, MPAA,
RIAA, Ministry of Defence of the
United Kingdom, Estoniaand
Armenia, IFPI, Bhuvan, Deutsche
Bundesbank.
61. http://AstroTech.io
Richard Stallman
• a.k.a. “rms”
• GNU Project
• father of free software
• Emacs
• gcc, gdb
• against Digital Rights Management
• awards, fellowships and four
honorary doctorates.
63. http://AstroTech.io
Eric Steven Raymond
• Cathedral and the Bazzar
• The Hacker's Dictionary
• How to Be a Hacker
• developer of fetchmail
• revels in living the life in all its geeky
glory
72. http://AstroTech.io
Phrack magazine
• phrack.com
• first published November 17, 1985
• Fyodor: "the best, and by far the
longest running hacker zine,"
• covers phreaking, anarchy,
cracking, hacking, cryptography
and international news.
• "has had its finger on the pulse of
hacker culture"
• handbook and a manifesto for
hackers
74. http://AstroTech.io
The Hacker Manifesto
• The Mentor -> Blankenship
• wrote after he was arrested in 1986
• hacker’s only crime is curiosity
• a moral guide to hackers
• a cornerstone of hacker philosophy
• reprinted in Phrack
75. http://AstroTech.io
The Cathedral and the
Bazzar
• a.k.a. “CatB”
• essay by Eric S. Raymond
• based on his observations of the
Linux kernel development process
• and his experiences managing an
open source project, fetchmail
• at Linux Congress, May 27, 1997
81. http://AstroTech.io
Bulletin board system
• a.k.a. “BBS”
• Once logged in
• user can uploading and
downloading software and data
• reading news and bulletins
• exchanging messages with other
users, either through electronic mail
or in public message boards
• access via a Telnet
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Usenet
• Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1979
• worldwide distributed Internet
discussion system
• Usenet resembles a bulletin board
system
• precursor to the various Internet
forums
• absence of a central server and
dedicated administrator
83. http://AstroTech.io
Internet Relay Chat
• a.k.a. “IRC”
• IRC was created in 1988
• real-time Internet text messaging
(chat) or synchronous conferencing
• mainly designed for group
communication
