25 Juni 2010

"Who was the first hacker in the world?"



Hacker terminology emerged in the early 1960s among members of student organizations Tech Model Railroad Club at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The student group is one of the pioneering developments in computer technology and they are struggling with a number of mainframe computers. Said the first time hackers came up with a positive sense to describe a member who has expertise in the field of computers and able to make computer programs better than it has been designed together.

Then in 1983, the term hacker became negative. Because, in that year for the first time the FBI caught the 414s computer criminal groups based in Milwaukee, USA. 414 is their local area code. Group that came to be called hackers are convicted of burglary 60 computers, from computers owned by Cancer Center Memorial Sloan-Kettering's computer to Los Alamos National Laboratory. One of the perpetrators enjoy immunity because TESTIMONIALS, while five other players get probation.

Then in the next development comes another group that mention themselves hackers, but it's not. They are (especially the men) who get the satisfaction of breaking through computer and telephone outsmart (phreaking). True hackers call these people 'crackers' and do not like hanging out with them. True hackers crackers as people looked lazy, irresponsible, and not too smart. Real hackers do not agree to say that with a person through the security has become a hacker.

Hackers meet once every year that is held every mid-July in Las Vegas. A meeting of the world's largest hacker is called Def Con. Def Con event to event is more exchange of information and technology related to hacking activities.

Hacker has a negative connotation because of misunderstanding of the community will be differences in terms of hackers and crackers. Many people understand that hackerlah resulting in loss of certain parties, such as changing the look of a web site (defacing), insert the virus code and so on. In fact, they are a cracker. Crackerlah using vulnerabilities that have not been repaired by the manufacturer software (bugs) to infiltrate and damage a system. For this reason, hackers usually divided into two groups understood the White Hat Hackers, ie the actual hackers and crackers are often called Black Hat Hackers term.

In 1983 out again by a movie called War Games in which one of his role is played by Matthew Broderick as David Lightman. The movie is about a teenage computer enthusiast who accidentally connected with the secret super computer that controls the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Then in 1995 came out a movie called Hackers, who told the struggle between the young champion of underground computer with a high-tech companies in through a computer system. In the film, described how young children eventually are able to penetrate security and cripple computer systems company. One of the players is Angelina Jolie's role as Kate Libby aka Acid Burn.
In the same year out of a movie called The Net also played by Sandra Bullock as Angela Bennett. The film tells how the struggle of a computer expert female identity and the information in the real world identity has been changed by someone. With the release of two films, the existence of hackers getting away from the terminology, which first appeared in the 1960s at MIT.

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