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Top Five Best Hackers of All Time
- ivankirigin 19y agoTop N lists will hopefully not be part of web 3.0 :-P
- davidw 19y agoWhat are the top N things from web2.0 that you don't want to see in web3.0? ;-)
- ivankirigin 19y agoI wish I could upmod more than once sometimes :-P
- mxh 19y agoThis is more like the "Top Five Best-Known Hackers of All Time". Surely, the real top 5 (with all due respect to RTM), whoever they are, never saw the inside of a courtroom.
- jey 19y agoDoh, when I saw "hacker" in the title, I assumed "skilled programmer"...
- mark-t 19y agoYou would be looking for http://www.marvquin.com/blog/top-five-5-best-non-criminal-hackers-all-time http://www.marvquin.com/blog/top-five-5-best-non-criminal-ha... . Well, maybe. Also not a great list.
- nostrademons 19y agoThat list is pretty close to who I'd pick, actually. Except that Shimomura would not make mine - I'd place several others, notably Jamie Zawinski and Guy Steele, above him.
- euccastro 19y agoThis is even worse, mixing up two or three different meanings of the word.
- jsjenkins168 19y agoIn case some haven't noticed yet, Robert Morris of Y Combinator is #4 on that list. Pretty cool.
- staunch 19y agoIt is awesome. Who hasn't dreamed of being featured on the MarvQuin.com Blog? ;-)
- bootload 19y ago"... Mitnick then embarked on a two and a half year coast to coast hacking spree ..." Mitnick is a good choice for #1 cracker (why do people persist with the 'h' & not the 'cr' ~ http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is ). Mitnick is probably the best known ( http://www.takedown.com/bio/mitnick.html http://www.takedown.com/bio/mitnick.html ) but his special area of exploitation is "primarily human" and focus of his book "Art of Deception". This makes him an exceptionally effective cracker, exploiting both man and machine. While some are good with machines, Mitnick is good with machines & humans cracks ~ http://www.kevinmitnick.com http://www.kevinmitnick.com
- nailer 19y agoThese are just computer vandals, none have created anything interesting. The article title is like a 'list of the best arsonists'. Not classy.
- jsjenkins168 19y agoRobert Morris helped create this site, and I consider it interesting.
- nailer 19y agoAcknowledged. But the article doesn't mention Morris as the creator of a social news site for startups, merely a person who caused vast amounts of damage for his own selfish interests. As does Robert's wikipedia entry. Robert, if you're reading this, do you still (post-sentencing) regret creating the worm?