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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shenoxxx" data-source="post: 7766101" data-attributes="member: 240326">Top 10 Hackers Hackers in Hollywood tend to be portrayed in extremes: They're either  modern-day equivalents of James Bond or anti-social yet tech-savvy  teenagers looking for ways to amuse themselves at the expense of other  computer users. The truth is, hackers are an assortment of  IT-knowledgeable individuals who are both responsible for billions of  dollars of losses yearly and the unstoppable evolution of the worldwide  web. As such, this article will tackle the good, the bad, and the geeky  hackers of modern-day computing. 1.           Shawn Fanning: This  hacker has helped a lot in revolutionizing (that is, enacting actual,  irrefutable change) the music industry, particularly in the domain of  music distribution. Together with the help of Shaun Parker and Jordan  Ritter, the three visionaries set out to launch Napster—a P2P  application that ultimately popularized the free exchange of music files  via the Internet. 2.           Robert Morris: He  is the inventor of first Internet-based worm ever made. His namesake  exploited both fingerd and sendmail vulnerabilities in order to induce  buffer overflow. After serving time for his supposed cyber crimes, he  made a profitable startup that was bought by Yahoo for a considerable  sum and became the co-founder of ViaWeb along with Paul Graham. 3.           VallaH: This hacker  was the one responsible for the first smart DOS attack, ping-of-death,  and jolt.c, which enabled him to entertain script kiddies across  cyberspace and bring entire multinational companies down on their knees. 4.           Gordon Lyon: More  renowned for the nom de net of "Fyodor", Lyon is credited as the creator  of Nmap (the hacker's first-ever tool that has made a big enough impact  in pop culture to be included in movies like "The Bourne Ultimatum" and  "The Matrix"), the founder of insecure.org, and the pioneer of service  fingerprinting. 5.           Kevin Mitnick: He's  arguably the most famous real-life black hat hacker because of all the  media and press attention he has gotten over the last decade. For years,  he had been imprisoned without charge by the government before he was  sentenced to three years and ten months with consideration of the time  he'd already spent in jail. He now runs his own IT security company at  present. 6.           The Mentor: This  anonymous, cultish hacker leader was the author of the  Phrack-magazine-published Hacker Manifesto. He served as an inspiration  to a generation of children worldwide who wanted to become a hacker just  like him. 7.           Karl Koch: This  German hacker from the 1980s was far more well-known for his  controversial antics (i.e., his paranoia over the Illuminati, his  obsession with the number 23, and his cocaine addiction) than his  involvement in a computer espionage incident during the Cold War. 8.           Richard Jones: A  young Australian hacker (also known by the code name of Electron) who  spread disorder across the Internet with nothing more than a modem and  his technical know-how. After being arrested by Australian Federal  Police in 1990 and serving time in jail, he eventually became a security  consultant and researcher. 9.           Kevin Poulsen: He's a former black hat hacker who's  now the senior editor of Wired News. He once used his hacking skills to  "phreak" his way into winning an LA radio contest and getting a brand  new Porsche, but he was ultimately caught and arrested for his actions. 10.      Adrian Lamo: This gray  hat hacker demonstrated to everyone across the globe that it's possible  to take down large websites by just manipulating URLs. He is now an  award-winning journalist. </blockquote>

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