2600: The Hacker Quarterly Essays

  • Kevin Mitnick Social Engineering Guru

    1165 Words  | 3 Pages

    Kevin D. Mitnick social engineering guru Kevin Mitnick was born Kevin David Mitnick born August 6, 1963 in the city of Van Nuys, California in the late 70’s; as he was growing up in his adolescence of his teenage years the computer was starting to come of age for the consumers but, not until the 80’s where they available to users? But the i.e. (main frame) have been inexistence since after the war; the technology was there but, not readily available to the public. It was used

  • A Snapshot of Computer Hacking

    1171 Words  | 3 Pages

    without the permission of the owner. I want to point out two terms that I will use throughout the paper, hacker and cracker. A hacker is a person who has extensive computer knowledge and enjoys tackling technical issues. The goal of hackers is not to cause damage to the computer system or network while infiltrating it. They are there to try and learn and improve upon the program. A hacker believes that information should be free, so they commonly share how they went about doing the infiltrating

  • The Hacker Subculture

    1880 Words  | 4 Pages

    Hacker subculture[1] is heavily dependent on technology. It has produced its own slang and various forms of unusual alphabet use, for example l33tspeak. Such things are usually seen as an especially silly aspect by the academic hacker subculture.[citation needed] In part due to this, the slangs of the two subcultures differ substantially.[citation needed] Political attitude usually includes views for freedom of information, freedom of speech, a right for anonymity and most have a strong opposition

  • Computer Crime: The History Of Computer Hacker Crime

    1189 Words  | 3 Pages

    Hacker only has 50 years history, computer hacker crime is one of the mots dangerous crime threat at 21th century. Hacktivism is a new class of hacker has emerged, “the so-called hacktivist, who engages in hacking of computer networks and systems as a form of protest”(Hargrave,2012). Hacker crimes have use computer programming skill to make errors on your computer that control your computer to get information and change your computer system. Since in 1970s, computer hackers are called “phreaks”

  • Hackers and the Internet

    1370 Words  | 3 Pages

    Hackers and the Internet Internet Security covers a broad list of topics. I have chosen to cover hackers and their history. I will go through who hackers are and how we define hackers. I will also cover the history of how hackers got started. This was a very interesting topic and may surprise a lot of people who have had misconceptions of what hackers do due to how the are covered by the media. In the 1960’s at MIT a group of curious students, members of the Tech Model Railroad Club, decided

  • Hackers: Information Warefare

    2205 Words  | 5 Pages

    Hackers: Information Warefare The Popularity Of The Internet Has Hrown Immeasurably In The Past Few Years. Along with it the so-called "hacker" community has grown and risen to a level where it's less of a black market scenario and more of "A Current Affair" scenario. Misconceptions as to what a hacker is and does run rampant in everyone who thinks they understand what the Internet is after using it a few times. In the next few pages I'm going to do my best to prove the true definition

  • The Digital Millennium Copyright Act and DeCSS

    2734 Words  | 6 Pages

    Abstract:          This paper discusses the ongoing court battle between the Motion Picture Association of America, supported by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and various defendants regarding the DeCSS program and its source code.  DeCSS is a utility that allows the circumvention of the encryption built into most DVDs.  Specifically, the paper examines the implications of the court decision on a range of issues including source code as free speech, HTML linking, and fair use. In 1998

  • Individual Presentation: Kevin Mitnick

    3140 Words  | 7 Pages

    Star Wars saga, but I really could not get interested in George Lucas. Then, late one night, I saw a movie called Takedown. It was based on a true story that dealt with the pursuit and capture of Kevin Mitnick, one of the most infamous computer hackers of all time. I was instantly amazed. As soon as the movie was over, I began scouring the internet looking for information concerning him. I am quite interested in computers, and Mitnick’s mastery of them drew me towards him. I knew then that he