What are the magical operations of the world's top hackers?

Hacker is a word that everyone hears often. But do you really know what it means?

Hackers are derived from the English "hacker", which originally refers to computer experts who are enthusiastic about computer technology and highly skilled, especially programmers. The Internet, Unix, and Linux are all the crystallization of hackers' wisdom. Some people say that hackers made the Internet, personal computers and free software. Hackers are the true heroes and protagonists of the computer and Internet revolution. But today, the term "hacker" has been used in general to refer to those guys who use computer networks to engage in sabotage or pranks. In fact, the correct English expression for this type of person is "cracker", that is, "hacker".

There are many categories of hackers. According to motivation, it can be divided into the following two categories:

One type is hackers in the original sense, proficient in network software and hardware technology, like to find vulnerabilities in operating systems and application software, to find and use vulnerabilities as pleasure, generally will not damage the system with vulnerabilities.

The other type is hackers in the original sense, aiming at destroying a specific system, carefully collecting information about the system, analyzing possible vulnerabilities in the system, designing and implementing an attack plan against the system’s vulnerabilities, in order to steal information and destroy System resources are the purpose.

What personality traits do hackers have?

I am afraid that the first thing many people think of is high IQ. Hackers are keen on computer technology, fascinated by cracking and anti-cracking, have extraordinary talents and ample desire for creativity.

In addition, they also have strong curiosity, are willing to think independently, overcome limitations, and have an exploratory spirit that is anti-traditional, anti-authority, and advocating freedom.

List of famous hackers in the world

In the virtual network world, a group of such people are active. Next, Siwu will take you to learn about those famous hackers.

Kevin Mitnick
The World's "Number One Computer Hacker"

Among all hackers, Kevin Mitnick is quite legendary, and some critics call it the "number one computer hacker" in the world. He was the first hacker to be "rewarded" by the FBI. Kevin Mitnick broke into the computer mainframe of the "North American Air Defense Command System" at the age of 15, and some other friends rummaged through all the nuclear warhead data of the United States pointing to the former Soviet Union and its allies, and then slipped out silently.

He has made the following "arrogant" remarks:
Cruise around the Pentagon, log in to the Kremlin, access all computer systems around the world, destroy the global financial order and rebuild a new world structure. No one can stop our attack. We are the masters of the world.

Currently, Kevin Mitnick's career is a cyber security consultant.

Dennis M Ritchie
C language, father of Unix

Dennis Ritchie (Dennis M Ritchie) is the creator of the C language and a key developer of the Unix operating system. He has had a profound influence on the computer field and was the winner of the 1983 Turing Award with Ken Thompson. In addition, he co-authored the "C Programming Language" with Brian Colingham-the standard established by this book is called "K&R C", where "K" refers to Colingham and "R" refers to It's Rich.

Today, C language is widely used in the development of various applications, operating systems and embedded systems, and has influenced most modern programming languages. The Unix operating system has created a series of operating system concepts and guidelines.

Linus Torvalds
The creator of Linux and Git

Linus Torvalds is one of the most famous computer programmers and hackers in the world today. He is the earliest author of the Linux kernel and initiated this open source project as the chief architect and project coordinator of the Linux kernel. The Linux operating system is widely used in products such as tablet computers, switches, routers, video game consoles, desktop computers, handheld games, mainframes, and supercomputers. In addition, Linus Torvalds also initiated the open source project Git and served as the main developer.

Stephen Gary Wozniak
Co-founder of Apple
The creator of the first and second generation of Apple computers

Stephen Gary Wozniak (Stephen Gary Wozniak), an American computer engineer, once co-founded Apple Computer (now Apple) with Steve Jobs. Wozniak created the first and second-generation Apple computers in the mid-1970s. After the second-generation Apple computers became popular, they became the best-selling personal computers in the 1970s and early 1980s. Wozniak is known as the engineer who brought computers to the masses' homes.

Wozniak has many nicknames, such as Woz (The Woz), Wonderful Wizard of Woz (Wonderful Wizard of Woz) and iWoz (iWoz, derived from Apple’s product IPod name). WoZ's name is also the abbreviation of the company "Wheels of Zeus" founded by Wozniak. He has a reserved personality and does not like himself as a celebrity. He is the author of a personal biography "iWoz: I It's Woz.

Ken Thompson
Father of Unix, author of B language

Hacker culture circles usually call Ken Thompson "ken". While working at Bell Labs, the 26-year-old Thompson designed and implemented the Unix operating system, which changed the history of computer operating systems. In addition, he created the B language-the predecessor of the C language, and is one of the creators and developers of the Plan 9 operating system. In 2006, Thompson joined Google and co-designed the Go language. He and Dennis Rich are both winners of the 1983 Turing Award.

In addition, Ken Thompson also participated in the design of regular expressions and UTF-8 encoding, improved the text editor QED, and created the ed editor. He had built the computer "Belle" specially used to play chess, and created the endgame database.

Richard Matthew Stallman
Father of Free Software

The most well-known identity of Richard Matthew Stallman (rms, RMS) is a free software activist.

In order to create a Unix-like computer operating system composed entirely of free software, Stallman launched the GNU project in September 1983, thereby initiating the free software movement. So far, he has been the organizer of the GNU project, and as the main developer has developed some widely used GNU software, including GCC, GDB, GNU Emacs. In October 1985, he founded the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

Stallman's most famous influence in the "free software" movement is undoubtedly the GNU General Public License (GPL). The license defines the "copyleft concept". According to Stallman's description, its "central idea" is to give "anyone the right to run the program, copy the program, modify the program, and release the modified version of the program, but it is not allowed to add his own to the program Therefore, it guarantees that anyone who has a copy of the software also has the key freedoms that define “free software”; these rights become inalienable rights.”

John Draper
"Phone Thief"

John Draper (also known as Cap'n Crunch) discovered that using the "Captain Crunch" brand of cereal box as a prize whistle blows to the telephone microphone, free long-distance calls can be made. Cap'n Crunch introduced the brilliant idea of "stealing phone lines" to make long-distance calls to several generations of hackers.

Eric Steven Raymond
The first theorist of the open source movement and hacker culture

As the main editor and maintainer of the "New Hacker Dictionary," Eric Steven Raymond has long been considered a historian and anthropologist of hacker culture. But after 1997, Raymond was widely recognized as one of the main leaders of the open source movement.

Raymond's famous saying-"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" (Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow) has a great influence on the open source movement. This is the famous Linus law.

Mitchell David Kapor
Founder of Lotus
Founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Mitchell David Kapor founded Lotus in 1982 and served as CEO, launching the "killer application" software Lotus 1-2-3 for personal computers. In 1985, Lotus had 1,000 employees, making it the largest independent software company. It was not until April 1988 that Microsoft surpassed Lotus to become the number one software company.

Kapoor initiated the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to protect the interests of hackers and is known as the American Civil Liberties Association (ACLU) of the computer industry. Kapoor therefore became one of the most influential computer figures in the 80s and 90s and one of the most influential figures in the hacker world.

Robert Tappan Morris
Father of Worms

Robert Tappan Morris, network codename rtm, American programmer, computer scientist and entrepreneur.

One of his most famous deeds was the creation of the first computer worm program on the Internet in 1988, which caused multiple computer systems to be paralyzed after being spread on the Internet.

He founded Viaweb and is one of the co-founders of Y Combinator. He is currently a professor in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his research direction is the architecture of computer networks.

Dan Kaminsky
Discoverer of "DNS Security Flaw"

Dan Kaminsky is well-known in the hacker circle for discovering "DNS security flaws" and investigating the "Sony Rootkit infection" scandal. Unfortunately, he died of diabetes on April 23, 2021, at the age of 42.

Security researcher Marc Rogers tweeted his condolences: "Dan Kaminsky is the brightest star in the information security field and the kindest soul I know. The loss caused by his departure is immeasurable."

Adrian Lamo
Focus on large organizations
Invaded Microsoft, Yahoo, New York Times, etc.

Adrian Lamo is known as one of the five famous hackers in history. He specializes in finding large organizations and has invaded well-known companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo, New York Times, Citibank, and Bank of America. Lamo likes to use the coffee shop, Kinko shop or library network to carry out his hacking activities, so he got a nickname: the hacker who doesn't go home.

In March 2018, Adrian Lamo was confirmed to have died and was only 37 years old.

In the virtual network world, there are many such hackers, some exploit vulnerabilities to launch attacks, and some develop patches to maintain network security.
They are creating their own legend...

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