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Ask HN: Who is the best hacker of all time?
Who do you consider the most talented and well rounded cyber hacker of all time?
- yewenjie 6y agoRichard Stallman, the last true MIT Hacker.
- sidntrivedi 6y agoLol No
- lihaciudaniel 6y agoAaron Schwartz, the best freedom fighter
- sidntrivedi 6y ago+100000000000
- yesenadam 6y agoSwartz https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aaronsw https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aaronsw http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/ http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/
- justforfunhere 6y agoI think Fabrice Bellard is one of the top computer programmers of our times. https://bellard.org/ https://bellard.org/
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- kratom_sandwich 6y agoAre you aware that hacking is in most parts social engineering? Are you looking for the best hacker or social engineer? Are you aware of the differences between a hacker, a cracker and a script kiddie? What about participants in a hackathon - do you consider them hackers as well? I mean, the event has "hacking" in its name, right?
- fabiomaia 6y agoVery ambiguous question indeed for a community called "Hacker News" that targets a wide range of topics in technology and science, any of which can easily be considered "hacking".
- giantg2 6y agoIf you're using the media's definition of hacker to mean someone breaking/exploiting computer stuff, then I would say we can't answer that. The best people conceal their identity and don't get caught, so we wouldn't know them.
- krapp 6y agoThe mysterious hacker called 4chan.
- sethammons 6y agoAssuming you mean breaking into systems, while I'm not immersed in that culture, I did enjoy Kevin Mitnik's Ghost in the Wires. It may be a bit dated, but some of the stories of early phone phreaking and social engineering was a fun ride -- and helps add a decent level of paranoia to answering phone calls today! Kevin Mitnik is a legend. He might not be the best of all time or today, but he is up there.
- bjourne 6y agoLinus Torvalds. He appears to be good at almost everything; C programming, project management, architecture, writing emails, etc.
- kgraves 6y agohow can you be good at "writing emails"?
- Jugurtha 6y agoClear writing communicates complex ideas effectively and drives endeavors more than we give it credit for. Most emails I receive are longer than they ought to and makes N recipients spend T additional time to finally get the wrong idea and diverge in execution. More rambling emails are sent to align people. The sender can prevent this upstream by writing in a "clear, concise, complete, correct" way. This is valid for issues/bug reports/feature requests/user stories, etc.
- kleer001 6y agoMy favorite is Jayson Street only because he does a great black hat with little to no programming. Which, of course, goes against the "well rounded" part of your question.
- person_of_color 6y agoKevin Mitnick