The very first hacker was a guy who got free long distance calling by tricking the dialer using a Cap'n Crunch cereal toy whistle. Hacking has always been about manipulating systems by use of unintended input.
The term itself comes from model train clubs who would cut up old sets of track to make new pieces IIRC
The idea of a "hacker" being a malicious coder is sort of a product of 90s movies, it really originally meant people who would fuck around with whatever they were interacting with and was really a lot closer to an experimental DIY punk ethos than anything else. Sort of natural that those types would move into pentesting.
People always picture hackers as like super intelligent programmers and shit when the reality is closer to what you'd expect from the actual word, just some people with the digital equivalent of hacksaws using them on everything they can and seeing what happens.
Are you really a hacker for painting a sign? Soon we'll have "notorious hacker Wile E Coyote tricks teslas into driving into painted wall"
The very first hacker was a guy who got free long distance calling by tricking the dialer using a Cap'n Crunch cereal toy whistle. Hacking has always been about manipulating systems by use of unintended input.
Do you have an article or something on this story? I wanna read more about it
The guy's name is John Draper. Got a wikipedia page and everything
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/capn-crunch-whistle
Social engineering is a dumber but more effective form of hacking
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The term itself comes from model train clubs who would cut up old sets of track to make new pieces IIRC
The idea of a "hacker" being a malicious coder is sort of a product of 90s movies, it really originally meant people who would fuck around with whatever they were interacting with and was really a lot closer to an experimental DIY punk ethos than anything else. Sort of natural that those types would move into pentesting.
People always picture hackers as like super intelligent programmers and shit when the reality is closer to what you'd expect from the actual word, just some people with the digital equivalent of hacksaws using them on everything they can and seeing what happens.
yes
writing the onion article now