Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai

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[1989 Jun 22] 'Fry Guy', a 16-year-old in Elmwood, Indiana cracks into McDonald's mainframe on the Sprint Telenetsystem. One act involved the young hacker altering phone switches so that calls to a Florida county probationdepartment would ring at a New York phone- sex line answered by "Tina." On September 14 1990, he was sentenced toforty- four months probation and four hundred hours community service.

1990s

[1990] Electronic Frontier Foundation is formed by Mitch Kapor and John Perry Barlow in part to defend the rights ofthose investigated for alleged computer hacking.

[1990] Kevin Poulsen's now- infamous incident with KIIS-FM in Los Angeles. In 1990 the station ran the "Win a Porscheby Friday" contest, with a $50,000 Porsche given to the 102nd caller. Kevin and his associates, stationed at theircomputers, seized control of the station's 25 telephone lines, blocking out all calls but their own. Then he dialed the102nd call -- and later collected his Porsche 944.

[1990 Jan 15] AT&T's long-distance telephone switching system crashed. During the nine long hours frantic effort thatit took to restore service, some seventy million telephone calls went uncompleted. Hackers where first suspected ofcausing the crash but later AT&T engineers discovered the "culprit" was a bug in AT&T's own software.

[1990 Jan 18] Chicago task force raids an alleged computer hacker Craig Neidorf ('Knight Lightning') in St. Louis.

[1990 Feb] U.S. Secret Service raid an alleged computer hacker Len Rose ('Terminus') in Maryland. Len somehow gothis hands on System V 3.2 AT&T Unix Source Code, including the source

[1990 Feb 21] Chicago Task Force raids the home of Robert Izenberg, an computer hacker in Austin.

[1990 Mar 1] Chicago task force raids Steve Jackson Games, Inc. Reportedly, workers Loyd Blankenship ('The Mentor') and Chris Goggans ('Erik Bloodaxe'), had ties to a hacker group (LOD) Justice Department was investigating.Finding a rulebook to a game called G.U.R.P.S. CYBERPUNK , raiders interpreted the findings as a tutorial on computerhacking and proceeded to seize equipment and documents found at the site. Steve Jackson Games, Inc. prevailed in anensuing legal battle, however their equipment was never returned in its entirety.

[1990 May 7] May 7 through Wednesday, May 9, the United States Secret Service and the Arizona Organized Crime andRacketeering Bureau implement Operation Sundevil computer hacker raids in Cincinnati, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami,Newark, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Richmond, San Diego, San Jose and San Francisco.

[1990 Mar 7] A 24 year-old Denver man, Richard G. Wittman Jr., has admitted breaking into a NASA computer system.In a plea bargain, Wittman plead guilty to a single count of altering information - a password inside a federal computer.

[1990 Apr] Between April 1990 and May 1991, computer hackers from the Netherlands penetrated 34 DOD sites . Atmany of the sites, the hackers had access to unclassified, sensitive information on such topics as military personnel- -personnel performance reports, travel information, and personnel reductions; logistics- -descriptions of the type andquantity of equipment being moved; and weapons systems development data.

[1990 May] At least four British clearing banks are being blackmailed by a mysterious group of computer hackers whohave broken into their central computer systems. The hackers demanded substantial sums of money in return for showingthe banks how their systems where penetrated. One computer expert described their level of expertise and knowledge ofthe clearing bank computer systems as "truly frightening".

[1991] The Internet, having been established to link the military and educational institutions banned access to businesses.That ban is lifted this year.

[1991] Rumors circulate about the Michelangelo virus , a program expected to crash computers on March 6, 1992, theartist's 517th birthday. Doomsday passes without much incident.

[1991 Feb] DOS version of AOL released.

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