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| − | Hacking has been around in different forms since the development of the first computers. The first hackers appeared at MIT and hacked electric trains and tracks to make them perform differently before moving onto the computing systems being developed on campus. Many early hackers began as phone hackers, "phreaks", before moving onto the realm of computers. As the presence of hackers began to grow, they formed hacking groups, such as the Legion of Doom. In 1986, | + | Hacking has been around in different forms since the development of the first computers. The first hackers appeared at MIT and hacked electric trains and tracks to make them perform differently before moving onto the computing systems being developed on campus. Many early hackers began as phone hackers, "phreaks", before moving onto the realm of computers. As the presence of hackers began to grow, they formed hacking groups, such as the Legion of Doom. In 1986, Congress passed the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which made it a crime to break into computer systems. Two years later, "the Mentor" (Loyd Blankenship) is arrested and publishes the Hacker Manifesto.The same year, the first worm is distributed through the internet. The self-replicating worm, created by Robert T. Morris Jr. spreads to 6,000 computer networks, including government and university systems. In the early 1990's when Netscape Navigator, which made information on the web much more accessible, begins to take off, hackers quickly move their skills to this new target. The subsequent rise of America On Line led to the release of AOHell, an application that unskilled hackers could used to hack in to AOL, spamming user mailboxes and chat rooms. |
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Revision as of 00:56, 3 October 2012
A hacker is a person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data.
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Hacking has been around in different forms since the development of the first computers. The first hackers appeared at MIT and hacked electric trains and tracks to make them perform differently before moving onto the computing systems being developed on campus. Many early hackers began as phone hackers, "phreaks", before moving onto the realm of computers. As the presence of hackers began to grow, they formed hacking groups, such as the Legion of Doom. In 1986, Congress passed the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which made it a crime to break into computer systems. Two years later, "the Mentor" (Loyd Blankenship) is arrested and publishes the Hacker Manifesto.The same year, the first worm is distributed through the internet. The self-replicating worm, created by Robert T. Morris Jr. spreads to 6,000 computer networks, including government and university systems. In the early 1990's when Netscape Navigator, which made information on the web much more accessible, begins to take off, hackers quickly move their skills to this new target. The subsequent rise of America On Line led to the release of AOHell, an application that unskilled hackers could used to hack in to AOL, spamming user mailboxes and chat rooms.
