HACKING

Hacking time line

 

Hacking has been around for more than a century. In the 1870s, several teenagers were flung off the country’s brand new phone system by enraged authorities. Here’s a peek at how busy hackers have been in the past 35 years.

Early 1960s

University facilities with huge mainframe computers, like MIT’s artificial intelligence lab, become staging grounds for hackers. At first, “hacker” was a positive term for a person with a mastery of computers who could push programs beyond what they were designed to do.

Early 1970s

John Draper makes a long-distance call for free by blowing a precise tone into a telephone that tells the phone system to open a line. Draper discovered the whistle as a give-away in a box of children’s cereal. Draper, who later earns the handle “Captain Crunch,” is arrested repeatedly for phone tampering throughout the 1970s.

Yippie social movement starts YIPL/TAP (Youth International Party Line/Technical Assistance Program) magazine to help phone hackers (called “phreaks”) make free long-distance calls.

Two members of California’s Homebrew Computer Club begin making “blue boxes,” devices used to hack into the phone system. The members, who adopt handles “Berkeley Blue” (Steve Jobs) and “Oak Toebark” (Steve Wozniak), later go on to found Apple Computer.

Early 1980s

Author William Gibson coins the term “cyberspace” in a science fiction novel called Neuromancer.

In one of the first arrests of hackers, the FBI busts the Milwaukee-based 414s (named after the local area code) after members are accused of 60 computer break-ins ranging from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to Los Alamos National Laboratory.

 

Comprehensive Crime Control Act gives Secret Service jurisdiction over credit card and computer fraud.

Two hacker groups form, the Legion of Doom in the United States and the Chaos Computer Club in Germany.

2600: The Hacker Quarterly is founded to share tips on phone and computer hacking.

Late 1980s

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act gives more clout to federal authorities.

Computer Emergency Response Team is formed by U.S. defense agencies. Based at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, its mission is to investigate the growing volume of attacks on computer networks.

At 25, veteran hacker Kevin Mitnick secretly monitors the e-mail of MCI and Digital Equipment security officials. He is convicted of damaging computers and stealing software and is sentenced to one year in prison.

First National Bank of Chicago is the victim of a $70-million computer heist.

An Indiana hacker known as “Fry Guy” – so named for hacking McDonald’s — is raided by law enforcement. A similar sweep occurs in Atlanta for Legion of Doom hackers known by the handles “Prophet,” “Leftist” and “Urvile.”

Early 1990s

After AT&T long-distance service crashes on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, law enforcement starts a national crackdown on hackers. The feds nab St. Louis’ “Knight Lightning” and in New York grab Masters of Deception trio “Phiber Optik,” ” Acid Phreak” and “Scorpion.” Fellow hacker “Eric Bloodaxe” is picked up in Austin, Texas.

Operation Sundevil, a special team of Secret Service agents and members of Arizona’s organized crime unit, conducts raids in 12 major cities, including Miami.

A 17-month search ends in the capture of hacker Kevin Lee Poulsen (“Dark Dante”), who is indicted for stealing military documents.

Hackers break into Griffith Air Force Base, then pewwwte computers at NASA and the Korean Atomic Research Institute. Scotland Yard nabs “Data Stream,” a 16-year-old British teenager who curls up in the fetal position when seized.

A Texas A&M professor receives death threats after a hacker logs on to his computer from off-campus and sends 20,000 racist e-mail messages using his Internet address.

In a highly publicized case, Kevin Mitnick is arrested (again), this time in Raleigh, N.C., after he is tracked down via computer by Tsutomu Shimomura at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Late 1990s

Hackers break into and deface federal Web sites, including the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Air Force, CIA, NASA and others.

Report by the General Accounting Office finds Defense Department computers sustained 250,000 attacks by hackers in 1995 alone.

A Canadian hacker group called the Brotherhood, angry at hackers being falsely accused of electronically stalking a Canadian family, break into the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Web site and leave message: “The media are liars.” Family’s own 15-year-old son eventually is identified as stalking culprit.

Hackers pierce security in Microsoft’s NT operating system to illustrate its weaknesses.

Popular Internet search engine Yahoo! is hit by hackers claiming a “logic bomb” will go off in the PCs of Yahoo!’s users on Christmas Day 1997 unless Kevin Mitnick is released from prison. “There is no virus,” Yahoo! spokeswoman Diane Hunt said.

1998

Anti-hacker ad runs during Super Bowl XXXII. The Network Associates ad, costing $1.3-million for 30 seconds, shows two Russian missile silo crewmen worrying that a computer order to launch missiles may have come from a hacker. They decide to blow up the world anyway.

In January, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics is inundated for days with hundreds of thousands of fake information requests, a hacker attack called “spamming.”

Hackers break into United Nation’s Children Fund Web site, threatening a “holocaust” if Kevin Mitnick is not freed.

Hackers claim to have broken into a Pentagon network and stolen software for a military satellite system. They threaten to sell the software to terrorists.

The U.S. Justice Department unveils National Infrastructure Protection Center, which is given a mission to protect the nation’s telecommunications, technology and transportation systems from hackers.

Hacker group L0pht, in testimony before Congress, warns it could shut down nationwide access to the Internet in less than 30 minutes. The group urges stronger security measures.

 

Brief Hacking History

 

Hacking was first used on phones to make long distance calls for free by John Draper aka Captain Crunch, before it was really easy because payphones responded to a sound that phone Phreaks (phone hackers) made with an object that emited sound called Blue Box, nowadays it is digitalized and it’s extremely hard to hack. Hackers later started to infiltrate to other people computers’ which first was legal but later became a federal crime. The Homebrew computer club was the group of best hackers in the world, today most of them own computer companies, one of their members was Steve Wozniak who later co-founded Apple.  The biggest hacker of all times is Kevin Mitnick, he hacked over 100 companies, 20 000 credit card numbers, hacked the FBI and the feds feared that he could launch nuclear missiles from a payphone in a few minutes. He was sent to jail for 20 years, 23 hours a day in a solitary cell. The first virus was the Morris worm written by Robert Morris in 1988.

Essay

 

Internet Identities.

People sometimes tend to change their online identity because they don’t like the way they’re, they’re not accepted in their environment due to different reasons, etc.  It can actually help people have a social life even if it’s only online. Like Autumn Edows who was rejected at school and extremely popular and famous all over Myspace, without people who knew the real her realizing that it was her. When someone is depressed they should forbid them to go on myspace because what most of them do is an insult to the internet.

I personally think that people in the US specially started to play way too much with their online identity because of the site myspace.com. The features on that site make anyone go crazy within one week or even less. Broadcasting what you do n your computer to people you don’t even know, uploading songs others like to fit. In my opinion they’re the ones to blame since even a monkey can have access to private profiles and look at personal information of users, that are after blackmailed. Teenagers change 180 degrees online, to fit in. You can even play with other people’s identities online by hacking their account, or start rumors easily like they did with that kid Ryan who later killed himself. Many teenagers create alter egos because they don’t have any friends go on chat rooms and try to meet with people and create a whole new person out of noting in a matter of hours. Some people create fake online identities to prank their friends, some to prank just anyone and some to get naughty pictures from hot random girls. Some social groups became really weird when they started to surf the web, I won’t mention them but they know who they are. They whine in chatrooms all day about how depressed they’re because they couldn’t decide to buy a Sprite or a Diet Coke. Start singing on MyspaceTV even if they don’t know how to use an instrument and after their parents tell them to go to sleep because it’s 3 am during a weeknight, they get more depressed, think of killing themselves and cut their wrists over nothing. Some other teenage groups use it to post their photos and show everyone how “good looking and cool” they’re. Only a small percentage of teenager use internet for what it was meant for: pornography.  That type of kids are the ones that are going to grow up just fine, they do what every generation has done for the past 60 years: stare at the other sex body parts. They think about being with attractive women instead of thinking of killing themselves, it’s much more healthier than being depressed even though shrinks think other wise.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WEB 2.0

 

For the past 10 years the use of Internet has increased more than anything else, especially in North America. When it first was invented it was used by the US secret services, now it’s used for almost anything you can think of. First it wasn’t popular at all, it didn’t get to almost every home in North  America until the pornography was uploaded on the Internet. Other companies such  as Microsoft, took advantage of this opportunity and created web mails, so this users could forward each other the sites and pictures, after they started to use it for other purposes. Now the instant messaging programs and social networking are what’s most popular after pornography in the internet. Teenagers are the ones that use those the most, they can’t live without them, everything they plan is with Facebook, Myspace, Msn,etc. Internet has become so popular that everything has a site for it. Now there are Internet “crimes” such as cyberbullying, hacking, cyberrape, etc. I think all those laws passed about internet security are not necessary, they are thing that wouldn’t happen if people knew how to use a computer properly.

 

            Today internet is almost the most common thing in any household, everybody when they come home they go online: check their e-mail, go on a social networking site, read the newspaper online, download songs and watch videos on youtube. Millions of people live of the internet industry, since it created millions of jobs and professions such as: Web Designer, Graphic Designer, Internet Security technician, Anti-virus programming, online support, porn stars, etc. Students from elementary school to university look up for research projects, essays and book reports in the internet, people can’t live without access to the internet, kid don’t look for books in the library anymore they google anything they need.  The internet was the world’s biggest evolution since the industrial revolution.

 

            The documentary Growing up online shows how bad the site Myspace.com has done to the American society, I’ve never heard of suicides due to online rumors in countries where no one uses Myspace. Every time I look at someone’s Myspace profile I feel like hitting my head against the wall.  In the documentary they show how some teenage girls challenge each other to whom get the most online friends, they got to a point where they had 3000 friends on myspace and they freaked out when they realized when all those people they didn’t know who it was had access to their personal information. They also tell the story of a kid named Ryan who like any other teenager went online everyday and chat online with his friends. He was being bullied so his father taught him how to fight, after those kids weren’t able to beat him up anymore start a rumor about him being gay. Ryan wasn’t able to live with it so he went online and spent weeks on finding a way on how to suicide. The FBI instead of controlling hackers so much they should arrest people who put up sites that teach you how to kill yourself. If Ryan instead of spending weeks trying to kill himself he would have spent that time on learning how to hack, then went and hack those kids that made up the rumor on him being gay and posting on their profiles that they were gay and he wasn’t and destroy THEIR social life in revenge.

 

            What shocked me most from the documentary is Evan Skinner (the crazy woman from the documentary), she destroyed her son’s high school years, she thinks that someone is going to go and master bate while watching the video of her son and all his friends being drunk in a train on their way to a rock concert. She cares more about people seeing their son drunk than the fact that his son who isn’t legal drinking age got drunk while being in the city. I think that she only cares so much about what their family does on the internet because she doesn’t want them to spoil her reputation, she only cares about herself and only lives for appearances and what people think of her. If my mother would have done that, I’d go live somewhere else, no human can so paranoiac about something like she was about that. If I was one of the kids that went to that concert I would egg or throw toilet paper at her house. 

 

            The fact that the new type of parties are videogames tournaments is also really weird, because I have never seen that happen in Canada, all the parties I’ve been to there’s always someone who ends up throwing up all over the floor and not being killed by his friend 25 times in an hour in a video game. 

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