Dušan Filiferović Web Log

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1. Kevin Mitnick.

Mitnick is perhaps synonymous with Hacker. The Department of Justice still refers to him as “the most wanted computer criminal in United States history.” His accomplishments were memorialized into two Hollywood movies: Takedown and Freedom Downtime.
Mitnick got his start by exploiting the Los Angeles bus punch card system and getting free rides. Then similar to Steve Wozniak, of Apple, Mitnick tried Phone Phreaking. Mitnick was first convicted for hacking into the Digital Equipment Corporation’s computer network and stealing software.
Mitnick then embarked on a two and a half year coast to coast hacking spree. He has stated that he hacked into computers, scrambled phone networks, stole corporate secrets and hacked into the national defense warning system. His fall came when he hacked into fellow computer expert and hacker Tsutomu Shimomura’s home computer.
Mitnick is now a productive member of society. After serving 5 years and 8 months in solitary confinement, he is now a computer security author, consultant and speaker.

2. Adrian Lamo

Lamo hit major organizations hard, hacking into Microsoft and The New York Times. Lamo would use Internet connections at coffee shops, Kinko’s and libraries to achieve his feats earning him the nickname “The Homeless Hacker”. Lamo frequently found security flaws and exploited them. He would often inform the companies of the flaw.
Lamo’s hit list includes Yahoo!, Citigroup, Bank of America and Cingular. Of course White Hat Hackers do this legally because they are hired by the company to such, Lamo however was breaking the law.
Lamo’s intrusion into The New York Times intranet placed him squarely into the eyes of the top cyber crime offenders. For this crime, Lamo was ordered to pay $65,000 in restitution. Additionally, he was sentenced to six months home confinement and 2 years probation. Probation expired January of 2007. Lamo now is a notable public speaker and award winning journalist.

3. Jonathan James

At 16 years old, James gained enormous notoriety when he was the first minor to be sent to prison for hacking. He later admitted that he was just having fun and looking around and enjoyed the challenge.
James hit high profile organizations including the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, which is an agency of the Department of the Defense. With this hack he was able to capture usernames and passwords and view highly confidential emails.
High on James list, James also hacked in NASA computers and stole software valued at over $1.7 million. The Justice Department was quoted as saying: “The software stolen by James supported the International Space Station’s physical environment, including control of the temperature and humidity within the living space.” Upon discovering this hack, NASA had to shut dow its entire computer system costing taxpayers $41,000. Today James aspires to start a computer security company.

4. Robert Tappan Morris

Morris is the son of a former National Security Agency scientist named Robert Morris. Robert is the creator of the Morris worm. This worm was credited as the first computer worm spread through the Internet. Because of his actions, he was the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Morris created the worm while at Cornell as a student claiming that he intended to use the worm to see how large the Internet was at the time. The worm, however, reproduced itself uncontrollably, shutting down many computers until they had completely malfunctioned. Experts claim 6,000 machines were destroyed. Morris was ultimately sentenced to three years’ probation, 400 hours of community service and assessed a $10,500 fine.
Morris is now a tenured professor at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His focus is computer network architecture.

5. Kevin Poulsen

Frequently referred to as Dark Dante, Poulsen gained national recognition for his hack into Los Angeles radio’s KIIS-FM phone lines. These actions earned him a Porsche among many other items.
The FBI began to search for Poulson, when he hacked into the FBI database and federal computers for sensitive wiretap information. Poulsen’s specialty was hacking into phone lines and he frequently took over all of a station’s phone lines. Poulson also reactivated old Yellow Page escort telephone numbers for a partner who operated a virtual escort agency. Poulson was featured on Unsolved Mysteries and then captured in a supermarket. He was assessed a sentence of five years.
Since his time in prison, Poulsen has worked as a journalist and was promoted to senior editor for Wired News. His most popular article details his work on identifying 744 sex offenders with Myspace profiles.

edan serviser primio email koji glasi ovako: “KakoDaPopravimOnajNajveciTasterNaTastaturi”

    U emisiji “POLARATOR” na trecem kanalu u cetvrtak 21. 03. ‘91. u delu emisije kada su voditelji odgovarali na pitanja gledalaca vezana za kompjutere jedno od postavljenih pitanja je bilo: “Želeo bih da kupim kompjuter; cuo sam da je 386 dobar pa sam hteo da cujem šta vi mislite, ali zbog fanansijske situacije bih kupio samo tastaturu i  prikljucio je na TV a kao spoljnu memoriju bih koristio kasetofon?” Voditelj je jednostavno ostao bez teksta.

   Da li znate kako je N. Parezanovic (prof. na PMF, autor brojnih knjiga o kompjuterima) preveo reci software & hardware? “MEKOTVORINE & TVRDOTVORINE”.

   Secam se prvog razreda srednje. Cale mi kupio C64 i ja (autor ovog sajta) kupim knjigu “BASIC” od gore pomenutog N. Parezanovica. Nemam pojma o kompjuterima. Sve što otkucam kako piše u knjizi, C64 mi javi neku grešku… Na casu “informatike i racunarstva” pitam prof. Kurjackog: “Pa imam taj C64…, nijedan program nece da izvršava. Šta da radim?” On mi (sa najozbiljnijim izrazom na licu) kaže: “Pa znaš šta, da bi pisao programe, moraš da imaš program koji se zove tekst -procesor.”

   Compaq razmatra  da promeni komandu “Press Any Key” u “Press  Return Key” zbog poplave poziva sa pitanjem gde se nalazi “Any” dugme na tastaturi.

   Tehnicka podrška firme AST imala je poziv od korisnika koji se žalio da je veoma komplikovano upravljati mišem sa “štitnikom od prašine”. Na kraju je ispalo da je “štitnik od prašine” plasticna vrecica u kojoj je miš bio zapakovan.

   Jedan Compaq tehnicar primio je poziv od korisnika koji se žalio da njegov sistem nece da cita tekstualne datoteke sa njegovih starih 5¼ disketa. Posle postepenog eliminisanja mogucih uzroka kao što su magneti ili izvori toplote [kojima su diskete možda bile izložene], ustanovljeno je na kraju da je korisnik stavio nalepnice na diskete, a zatim uvukao diskete u pisacu mašinu i otkucao nazive na njima.

   Jedan kupac kod firme AST zamoljen je da pošalje kopije defektnih disketa. Posle nekoliko dana stiglo je pismo sa fotokopijama disketa. Dell tehnicar savetovao je mušteriju da stavi flopi disketu nazad u flopi drajv i da zatvori vrata. Ovaj je zamolio tehnicara da saceka, a onda se preko telefona culo kako je ovaj spustio slušalicu, ustao i otišao na drugi kraj sobe da zatvori vrata od sobe.

   Drugi Dell korisnik zvao je [tehnicku podršku] da se žali kako njegov kompjuter nece da pošalje fax. Posle 40 minuta telefonskog rešavanja problema, tehnicar je shvatio da covek drži dokument ispred monitora i pritiska [mišem] dugme “send”.

   Još jedan Dell korisnik zvao je da njegova tastatura više nece da radi. Cistio ju je tako što je celu tastaturu tzagnjurio u sapunicu i ostavio je u vodi ceo dan, a zatim je rastavio tastere i svaki posebno oprao

   Zbunjeni korisnik IBM racunara imao je problem sa štampanjem dokumenata. Rekao je tehnicaru IBM-a da mu kompjuter kaže da “ne vidi printer”. Onda je takode pokušao da okrene monitor ka štampacu, ali kompjuter ni tada nije mogao da “vidi” štampac.

   Dell tehnicar primio je poziv od korisnika koji je bio besan jer mu je njegov kompjuter rekao  da je on “bad and invalid” (loš i nevaljao). Tehnicar mu je odgovorio da tu poruku ne treba da uzme licno.

   Jedna nova korisnica pozvala je Dell tehnicku podršku i rekla da ne može da ukljuci svoj novi Dell kompjuter. Posle uveravanja da je kompjuter pravilno ukljucen na mrežno napajanje, tehnicar je pitao šta se desilo kada je pritisnula dugme na kome piše “Power”. Njen odgovor je bio da pritiska i pritiska ovu nožnu pedalu ali da se ništa ne dešava. “Nožna pedala” bio je u stvari miš.

   Jedna druga mušterija firme Compaq pozvala je tehnicku podršku da kaže da njen ganc novi kompjuter nece da radi. Rekla je da je otpakovala kompjuter, ukjucila ga u struju i sedela je pored njega 20 minuta cekajuci da se nešto desi. Kada ju je tehnicar upitao šta se desilo kada je pritisnula prekidac na kucištu, pitala je “A kakav prekidac?” 

Još jedna istinita prica iz Nowell-a.
Halo, je li to tehnicka podrška?Da, kako vam mogu pomoci?Držac za caše na mom PC-iju je polomljen a kompjuter je još pod garancijom. Je l’ se može popraviti? Izvinite, jeste li rekli: “držac za caše?”Da, to je pricvršceno na prednjoj strani mog kompjutera. Molim vas izvinite ako zvucim zbunjeno; to je zato što jesam zbunjen. Jeste li vi dobili taj deo na promociji, na sajmu? Kako ste dobili taj “držac za caše”? Ima li on neku oznaku na sebi? Dobila sam ga sa kompjuterom. Ne znam ništa o nekoj promociji. Od oznaka ima samo “4X” na sebi. U ovom trenutku tehnicar je morao da prekrije slušalicu u napadu smeha. Ta osoba je koristila ladicu od CD-ROM drajva kao držac za caše i onda se ladica odlomila.

    Jedan IBM korisnik imao je problem sa instaliranjem softvera i zvao je podršku.Stavio sam u drajv prvi disk, i to je bilo OK. Onda je reklo da stavim drugi disk i bilo je nekih problema sa diskom. Kada je reklo da stavim treci disk - nisam ga cak mogao ni ugurati… Ovaj tip nije shvatio da “Insert Disk 2″ znaci da se prvo izvadi disk 1.

   U slicnom slucaju, korisnik je pratio instrukcije za istalaciju softvera. U instrukcijama je pisalo da treba izvaditi disk iz omota i ubaciti ga u drajv. Korisnik je fizicki otvorio disketu i onda se cudio u cemu su nastali problemi.

   Na Zapadu se širi strah od najezde kompjuterskih virusa iz SSSR. Medutim, to je tehnicki nemoguce jer su ruski virusi programirani na cirilici i ne mogu ništa zapadnim racunarima.

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