Probably the most famous pirate of his generation, Mitnick has been described by the U.S. Department of Justice as "the most wanted computer criminal in United States history." The self-designed alleged 'hacker poster boy' (pirate posters posters) hacked into the computer systems of some of the technology and telecommunications companies in the world including major Nokia, Fujitsu and Siemens. After a pursuit by the FBI, Mitnick was arrested in 1995 and after confessing to several charges as part of a plea bargain agreement, he served five years in prison. He was released on parole in 2000 and today runs a computer security consultancy. He was not referring to his hacking activities as 'piracy' and calls them better 'social engineering'.
Poulon initially made his name by telephone lines pirated radio station KIIS-FM in Los Angeles, ensuring that he would be the 102nd caller and thus the winner of a contest that was played on the radio, whose price was a Porche . Under the hacker alias Dark Dante (Dante Dark), it also reactivated the old numbers Yellow Page escort for an acquaintance that then ran a virtual escort agency. Authorities began pursuing Poulson seriously after he hacked into a federal investigation database. Poulson also appeared on U.S. television Unsolved Mysteries as a fugitive - even though the program 1-800 telephone lines mysteriously crashed game. Since his release from prison, Poulson has reinvented himself as a journalist.
Adrian Lamo was called 'the homeless hacker' (homeless hacker) for his tendency to use cafes, libraries and Internet cafes as his bases for piracy. Most of his illegal activities involved breaking into computer networks and then reporting their weakest points of the companies that owned them. The biggest claim to fame came when Lamo he broke internal network of The New York Times, adding his name to their base data experts. He also used the paper's LexisNexis account to gain access to confidential details of high profile subjects. Lamo is currently working as a journalist.
Famous for being the co-founder of Apple, Stephen "Woz" Wozniak began his career of piracy 'white-hat' to 'phone phreaking' - the term used for bypassing the phone system. While studying at the University of California he made devices for his friends, called 'blue boxes', which allowed them to make free long distance phone calls. Wozniak allegedly called Pope such a device. Later he left the university and started working on the idea of a computer. He founded Apple Computer with his friend Steve Jobs and the rest, as they say, is history.
Also known as Mentor, Blankenship there was an elite member of several groups pirates in 1980 - especially the Resurrection Legion (Legion Of Doom), who battled for supremacy "in line" against fraud Masters (Masters Of Deception).
However, the biggest claim to fame is he is the author of Hacker Manifesto (The Conscience of a Hacker), which he wrote and was subsequently arrested in 1986. Manifesto declares that the only crime is curiosity and a hacker viewed not only as a moral guide by pirates today, but also as a milestone in the philosophy of computer hackers. It was reprinted from magazines phrack and managed to become the 1995 film Hackers, which starred Angelina Jolie.
6. Michael CALCE
CALCE gained fame when she was just 15 years being pirated some of the larger commercial sites in the world. On Valentine's Day in 2000, using the hacker nicknamed MafiaBoy (boy mafia), issued a series of attacks CALCE denial-of-service (denial-of-service) through 75 computers in 52 networks, which affected sites as eBay, Amazon and Yahoo. He was arrested after being boasted about his hack in chatrooms "on line". He received a sentence of eight months in a training camp, a year of probation, restricted use of the Internet, and a small fine.
7. Robert Tappan Morris
In November 1988 a computer virus, which was later traced at Cornell University, infected about 6,000 major Unix machines, slowing them down to the point of being unusable and causing millions of dollars in damage. If this virus was the first of its kind is questionable. What is public, however, is that its creator, Robert Tappan Morris, became the first person convicted under the Act Computer Fraud and Abuse. Morris said his virus "worm" was not intended to hurt anything and was released to gauge the size of the Internet. This assertion does not help him, however, he was sentenced to three years probation, 4,000 hours of community service and a hefty fine. Computer disk that holds the Morris Worm source code remains on display at the Boston Museum of Science today.
8. The Masters Of Deception (Fraud Crafts)
Masters of Deception (MoD) were a group of elite hackers based in New York who targeted U.S. phone systems in the mid to late 80s. A splinter group from the Legion Of Doom (Legion of Resurrection), they became a target for the authorities after they broke into AT & T. The group was brought to justice in 1992 with many of its members sentenced to prison or suspended sentences.
9. David L. Smith
Smith is the author of the infamous Melissa worm virus, which was the first successful virus spread via email in Usenet discussion group. Original form of the virus was sent via email. Smith was arrested and later sentenced to prison for causing more than 80 million dollars in damage.
10. Sven Jaschan
Jaschan was found guilty of writing the Netsky and Sasser worm in 2004, while still a teenager. Viruses were found responsible for 70 percent of all malware that spread through the Internet at that time. Jaschan got a suspended sentence and three years probation for his crimes. He also was employed by a security company.
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