Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai

2010

Eric Corley ('Emmanuel Goldstein') was one- time co-sysop of Plovernet, along with 'Lex Luthor', who would later foundthe phreaker/hacker group, Legion of Doom.

[1983 Sep 22] Kevin Poulsen ('Dark Dante') and Ron Austin are arrested for breaking into the ARPANET . At 17 Poulsenis not prosecuted and Austin receives 3 years probation.

[1983 Sep 27] Richard Stallman makes the first Usenet announcement about GNU.

[1983 Nov 12] First mention of Microsoft Windows on Usenet.

[1984] Andrew Tanenbaum writes the first version of Minix, a UNIX intended for educational purposes. Minix later gave Linus Torvalds the inspiration to start writing Linux .

[1984] The University of California at Berkeley released version 4.2BSD which included a complete implementation ofthe TCP/IP networking protocols. Systems based on this and later BSD releases provided a multi-vendor networkingcapability based on Ethernet networking.

[1984] Bill Landreth ('The Cracker') is convicted of breaking into some of the most secure computer systems in theUnited States, including GTE Telemail's electronic mail network, where he peeped at NASA Department of Defensecomputer correspondence. In 1987 Bill violated his probation and was back in jail finishing his sentence. Bill alsoauthored an interesting read titled ' Out of the Inner Circle '.

[1984] Legion of Doom formed. Legion of Doom, a hacker group which operated the United States in the late 1980's. The group's wide ranging activities included diversion of telephone networks, copying proprietary information from companies and distributing hacking tutorials. Members included: 'Lex Luther' (founder), Chris Goggans ('Erik Bloodaxe'), Mark Abene ('Phiber Optik'), Adam Grant ('The Urvile'), Franklin ('The Leftist'), Robert Riggs ('The Prophet'), Loyd Blankenship ('The Mentor'), Todd Lawrence ('The Marauder), Chasin ('Doc Holiday'), Bruce Fancher ('Death Lord'), Patrick K. Kroupa ('Lord Digital'), James Salsman ('Karl Marx'), G. Steinberg ('Frank Drake'), Corey A. Lindsly ('Mark Tabas'), 'Agrajag The Prolonged', 'King Blotto', 'Blue 'The Dragyn', 'Unknown Soldier', 'Sharp Razor', 'Doctor Who', 'Paul Muad'Dib', 'Phucked Agent 04', 'X-man', 'Randy Smith', 'Steve Dahl, 'The Warlock', 'Terminal Man', 'Silver Spy', 'The Videosmith', 'Kerrang Khan', 'Gary Seven', 'Bill From RNOC', 'Carrier Culprit', 'Master of Impact', 'Phantom Phreaker', 'Doom Prophet', 'Thomas Covenant', 'Phase Jitter', 'Prime Suspect', 'Skinny Puppy' and 'Professor Falken'.

[1984] 2600: The Hacker Quarterly founded Eric Corley ('Emmanuel Goldstein').

[1984 Jun 19] The X Window System by Robert W. Scheifler.

[1985] Hacker 'zine Phrack is first published by Craig Neidorf ('Knight Lightning') and Randy Tischler ('Taran King').

[1985 May 24] Date of incorporation under original founding name, Quantum Computer Services ( America Online ).

[1986] The Congress passes Computer Fraud and Abuse Act . The law, however, does not cover juveniles.

[1986] The german hacker group, Chaos Computer Club , hacked information about the german Nuclear Power Programfrom government computers during the Chernobyl crisis.

[1986 Jan 8] Legion of Doom/H member Loyd Blankenship ('The Mentor') is arrested around this time. He publishes anow- famous treatise that comes to be known as the Hacker's Manifesto .

[1986 Feb 26] The Phoenix Fortress BBS issues warrants for the arrest and confiscation of the equpment of 7 localusers in Fremont, CA. The Sysop turns out to be a local law enforcement agent and the Phoenix Fortress created tocatch hackers and software pirates.

[1986 Sep 1] An unknown suspect or group of suspects using the code name Pink Floyd repeatedly accessed the UNIXand Portia computer systems at Stanford University without authorization. Damage was estimated at $10,000.

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