Tag: PHREAKING

World famous geek and hacker, Kevin Mitnick, who tapped into the FBI's phones to stay one step ahead of his pursuers and could launch a nuclear strike by whistling into a phone (according to legend), is writing a tell-all book. The first person in our list of famous hackers spent over four years in prison before finally being sentenced in 1999 and was released in 2000. Now that the statute ...

Computers are incredibly liberating things for many of us. People with physical disabilities can shed those handicaps when they get online and be just as capable as those who are free of disabilities. This is true even when it comes to hacking, as shown by the case of a blind 17-year-old Boston, MA-based hacker who goes by the nickname of "Li'l Hacker" and has found himself squarely in the ...