If the computer and internet has simplified our lives by the great conveniences that they provide, they have also bought about some devils with them too. As they say, nothing is perfect, so isn’t the internet. With all its greatness, people still are afraid of having their personal information stolen, their passwords changed, or even their website being completely taken over, all thanks to the hackers. Today, we have compiled a list of top 10 infamous hackers who for once astounded the worlds with their feats.
No 10. Eric Corley
Better known by his pseudonym Emmanuel Goldstein, Eric Corley was a well-known hacker in the 80s and 90s. He faced trial in 1999 for sharing DeCSS codes and a method to download them. The codes allowed for decrypting of encrypted DVDs. His court case was the first to test the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Today, he owns a non-profit organization called the 2600 Enterprises, Inc. and publishes a magazine called 2600: The Hacker Quarterly.
In 2001, he took part in a demonstration against the jailing of Kevin Mitnick and in 2004 was arrested for videotaping the demonstration and was charged with disorderly conduct.
No 9. Robert T. Morris, Jr
In 1988, the Morris worm was created and Robert T. Morris, Jr was the one who created it. It was a first ever computer worm. He was a student at Cornell when he set off the worm from MIT, from MIT so as to hide his tracks. According to Morris, he just wanted to know the number of computers connected to the internet. The unintentional damages caused by the worm ranged in between $20,000 to $530,000. Morris did community service for the damages and was set free.
Currently, he is a teacher in the field of computer science and electrical engineering at MIT.
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How can they be top 10 hackers when they got caught
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I see more theifs and cheats than I do actually see hackers..
Smart guys
Well, as it turns out those who evade the police are the ones whose very existence is obscured…;)
no romanians? no indians? only one russian? kinda strange…
I have learned in the IT books that the 1st computer virus was created by Pakistani brothers. from wiki – The first PC virus in the wild was a boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain,[16] created in 1986 by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.
im the true hacker that helps
Lamo is studying journalism ?
He must have missed the part about not revealing his sources (in the Bradley Manning / Wikileaks mess).
Who would trust such a “journalist” with any important info ?
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i highly respect hackers/crackers ethical or unethical lamo was just a sissy. they are like robbinhood.
IMA A TRUE HACKER.JUST WAIT AND WATCH.
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the actual no.1 wil never be get published,,,,
Well I can say for sure that this is bu**s**t. The top hackers in the world are the ones that are known by nobody therefore it’s impossible to have a list of the top ten hackers. Especially since it was from 20 years ago.