| Submitted by: | thecoolestbrian |
| Date: | 03 / 03 / 2009 |
| Category: | Technology |
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Computer Hacking:
Definitions; Famous Hackers; Prevention
Computer intrusion, or hacking, takes place all over the world, and if it hasn’t happened to you already, it most likely will. But the word “hacking” is not just limited to computers. The definition for hacking is to expand the capabilities of any electronic device, or to use them for different uses other than what the original manufacturer had intended. The word “hacker” has gained a bad reputation only because of the media. While there are people out there to harass, defraud, and steal identity, these types of hackers only make up a small percentage of the hacker community. The term “hacker” first showed up in the 1960’s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The first victims were electric trains. Students at the university wanted the trains to perform faster and more efficiently. Through the 1970’s a new type of hacker appeared. They were called the Phone Phreak Hackers. These people had it in them to figure out the U.S. telephone system. They were able to hack into the telephonic system and make long distance calls for free. At this time Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, still just in their youth, decided to build and sell “blue boxes” to their classmates at college. These “boxes” enabled a phone user to make free long distance calls anywhere in the world by bypassing the telephone-switching mechanisms. Wozniak even used his blue box to call the Pope while pretending to be Henry Kissinger (56th Secretary of State of the U.S.).
A hacker used to be someone who only figured out computer code. Hackers were people who wanted to create something that no one else could even conceive. They were the first pioneers to the industry of computers. They programmed everything from small applications to whole operating systems. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Steve Wozniak were all essentially hackers. They each saw the potential of what computers could do and they wanted to create ways to achieve this goal....
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