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Crypto-1 is a cryptosystem developed by NXP for use on MIFARE chips. The system is proprietary and originally the algorithm has not been published. Upon reverse engineering of the chip, researchers from the University of Virginia and the Chaos Computer Club found an attack on Crypto-1 exploiting a poorly initialized random number generator. [13]
It challenges the principle of freedom of information, as it states that some types of information are too dangerous, as people could either be harmed by it or use it to harm others. [2] This is sometimes why information is classified based on its sensitivity. One example would be instructions for creating a thermonuclear weapon. [2]
The first edition, the version most easily available for download, was published in 1985. The last of four editions ISBN 0-7126-3454-1, edited by Steve Gold appeared in 1989 with reprints running into 1990. [2] In 1990, the UK Parliament passed the Computer Misuse Act. Publication of additional editions might have been construed to be ...
Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch is a 2014 book about the News International phone hacking scandal by the British investigative journalist Nick Davies. [ 1 ] Hack Attack was published by Random House 's imprint Chatto and Windus in the United Kingdom, by House of Anansi Press (Canada) and by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 's ...
Jeremy Alexander Hammond (born January 8, 1985), also known by his online moniker sup_g, [1] is an American anarchist activist and former computer hacker from Chicago. He founded the computer security training website HackThisSite [2] in 2003. [3]
A security hacker or security researcher is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network. [1] Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, information gathering, [2] challenge, recreation, [3] or evaluation of a system weaknesses to assist in formulating defenses against potential hackers.
The hacker ethic originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1950s–1960s. The term "hacker" has long been used there to describe college pranks that MIT students would regularly devise, and was used more generally to describe a project undertaken or a product built to fulfill some constructive goal, but also out of pleasure for mere involvement.
Considered a cornerstone of hacker culture, [4] the Manifesto asserts that there is a point to hacking that supersedes selfish desires to exploit or harm other people, and that technology should be used to expand our horizons and try to keep the world free. When asked about his motivation for writing the article, Blankenship said,