most famous hacker
Media wise: Mittnick or Mckinnon
For those who don't know Mckinnon was indicted by a US court in November 2002, accused of "hacking" into over 90 US Military computer systems from here in the UK.
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I'd say admins on sites like Skarecrow, Psychomarine, XeroX etc are well known.
The Flash wrote: Media wise: Mittnick or Mckinnon
For those who don't know Mckinnon was indicted by a US court in November 2002, accused of "hacking" into over 90 US Military computer systems from here in the UK.
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I'd say admins on sites like Skarecrow, Psychomarine, XeroX etc are well known.
I'd beg to differ. Personally Skarecrow, Psycho and the others are well known in our circles, start doing some traveling and you'll meet some more (A99 and Locus7s are hardly well known, I am insulted that you included them to be fair)
mozzer wrote: I'd beg to differ. Personally Skarecrow, Psycho and the others are well known in our circles, start doing some traveling and you'll meet some more (A99 and Locus7s are hardly well known, I am insulted that you included them to be fair)
Exactly what I meant.
I included the well known hackers (mckinnon and mittnick) then on pretty much every hacking community I go to knows of A99&Locus7s, for the same reasons as I do.
I would say that the best hackers in the world, are not known by anyone other than their own hacking group (if they have one), and perhaps the feds. Of course their might be other people that know them, but as a hacker, those people don't. So most likely no one around here has a clue to who any of the people are, not trying to insult anyone, nor claim that I know any, but it's simply something that seems quite true.
I've heard about ne0h, he seems to be a very good hacker. I mean, it's pretty hard to say who is the "best", cause I mean, the best at what? Rooting? Web Application Exploits? But I mean, I get what you're saying with asking this question, and I'd like to know the same thing, but yea. But anyways, I think the absolute "best" hacker in the world is probably unknown because he/she (yea, haha) IS the best. The best hacker in my mind wouldn't get caught because he's so good. And who knows, maybe the best hacker ever hasn't even started hacking yet, eh? But yea, I go with ne0h, from what I've heard of him, he's pulled some crazy shit, and hasn't gotten caught.
EDIT: Re-read the question. Realized the whole famous thing. I'd probably have to say Mitnick or The_Mentor, not exactly that they're the best, just the most well known to the public and such.
Mr_Cheese wrote: i'd have to vote for mckinnon. although its only recent. but due to the media frenzy and bit controvesry over him getting exported.. even non-hackers and computer illiterates know his name.
famous amoungst hackers, theres always The_Mentor (for obvious reasons).
haha i've never even heard of mckinnon until this thread :p what is The_Mentor exactly famous for anyways? just the manifesto or w/e?
Kevin Mitnick - He was a superb Social Engineer and Phreak. He hacked through human stupidity.
Tsutomu Shimomura - He beat Mitnick at his own game and he is the reason that Mitnick was caught.
Gary McKinnon - Hacking the pentagon and a few other military systems to prove that UFO's really did exist.
Adrian Lamo - Famous for his breakings to corperations like the New York Times and Microsoft
Kevin Poulsen - AKA Dark Dante…He hacked into a readio stations phone system and scored himself a new porche
Stephen Wozniak - Co-founder of Apple Computers Co.
Tim Berners-Lee - Inventor of the World Wide Web
Linus Torvalds - Father to the Operating system Linux
Richard Stallman - GNU Project