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the fist "hack" was a in 1879 by switching telephone lines -
the hacking of phones by copying tones and high pitch sounds from it to make so they didn't have to pay for long distance calls
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becomes well known after a magazine published a article about phreaking artists and inspired many people to become phreaks, this article talked about blue boxes (used to make the tones) -
business in the 1980s to 1990 didn't have a directed call so they had to buy equipment for it, by connecting to lines for an automated answering. but phreaks realized there was an open tone after the message and they would wait allowing them to get free calls at the business costs -
he hacked into the NORAD (north american defense command)
along with another hack in 1989 hacking into Digital Equipment Corporation -
as a teenager he hacked the pentagon and later hacked it again, he was arrested and turned into an ethical hacker after coming out of jail -
Ddos attacked many major companys such as Yahoo, Ebay, Dell, and CNN -
hacked into the new york time network in 2002 before he had hacked into content management systems making fake quotes from Attorney General John Ashcroft -
a uk hacker who hacked the usa government looking for UFO info -
using a botnet (strings together systems) he compromised half a million machines. first time a hacker got jail time for using a botnet -
Aaron was an internet hacktivist who hacked MIT's account to access JSTOR that holds academic research papers and journals and downloaded millions of studies -
the most recent phone hacking was in Pakistani were they arrested a hacker who stole 50 million from phone hacking business PBX systems