EH-Net

Who are the greatest phreakers, hackers, crackers, script kiddes, white hats, black hats?
What are the greatest feats of hacking, cracking, or phreaking since the age of computers started?
Give me ur opinions!

:P  "Great" and "Script Kiddie" just don't feel right going together heh.  It's a hard thing to really say who was the greatest of any of the other catagories though.  I always loved John Draper's handle, though last I heard that phreaker was living out of a van somewhere... how sad is that?  Some of the more entertaining hacks I've seen, are like the hack of the screens at a M$ conv showing up with penguines.  That was pretty cool.  I suppose you could point to Linux itself as being kind of a pivital 'hack' of Linus's Kernel and the GNU OS framework.  Infact, the inherent moldability and openeness of the project and it's constant 'evolution' due to 'hacks' by hundreds of thousands of developers and hobbiests is pretty cool. 

I think that's all I'm going to submit to this one though for now.

3 obvious ones

Mitnick - Social Engineering - p0wning the Las Vegas telco switch
Poulsen - War Dialing - Rigging a radio station contest to win a car
Morris - Malware/Vuln - kicking off the worm era with a bang

1. My top spot goes to the starter of this Usenet post (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/browse_thread/thread/76536d1fb451ac60/b813d52cbc5a044b?#b813d52cbc5a044b), who got fed up with an OS that cost money and didn't work the way he wanted it - so he wrote his own OS.
2. Fyodor (http://insecure.org/fyodor/).
3. Antirez (http://invece.org/).

Dont forget that it has been a tradition in hacking that the greatest hackers are not known.

nice, and all have been to jail...

for current ones...

solar designer
holy father
metasploit core developers the guy that wrote the meterpreter stuff (skape i think) that is some mad kung fu

The greatest hackers are the credit card frauds!  >:(

I think Gary McKinnon is the greatest hacker of all the times.

Its got to be David Lightman surely?

humor?  i hope.

David Lightman, the character, or David Scott Lewis (http://zerodaydefense.blogspot.com/), the inspiration for the character and technical advisor to the movie?

Don

No .. i meant it !

why?


Unless I'm missing something the guy walked through poor security, including default, null or simple passwords. and still managed to get caught by the sysadmins that managed the poorly secured systems.

I'm sure this has been said before, 'the greatest hackers are the ones you don't hear about' (terminology and exeptions that prove the rule aside...)

Wow, that's a fantastic find, what a time capsule.   It's definitely going into my bookmarks.

Yes, a true gem!!  8)

Charles Babbage. He hacked before computers existed and is therefore the Grandaddypop of all hackers. He also posted the first ever computer WTF?


Jimbob

that quote is hilarious!