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Definition

Hack is a term in the slang of the technology culture which has come into existence over the past few decades. As a noun, it has a number of related meanings; as a verb, it means creating or participating in a hack. Other meaning is, an unauthorized use, or attempts to circumvent or bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network. Also call as illegally accessing other people's computer systems for destroying, disrupting or carrying out illegal activities on the network or computer systems.

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Hacking History

hack Hacking has been around for more than a century. In the 1870s, several teenagers were flung off the country's brand new phone system by enraged authorities. Here's a peek at how busy hackers have been in the past 35 years. in early 1960s University facilities with huge mainframe computers, like MIT's artificial intelligence lab, become staging grounds for hackers. At first, "hacker" was a positive term for a person with a mastery of computers who could push programs beyond what they were designed to do.

Early 1970s

John DraperJohn Draper makes a long-distance call for free by blowing a precise tone into a telephone that tells the phone system to open a line. Draper discovered the whistle as a give-away in a box of children's cereal. Draper, who later earns the handle "Captain Crunch," is arrested repeatedly for phone tampering throughout the 1970s. Yippie social movement starts YIPL/TAP (Youth International Party Line/Technical Assistance Program) magazine to help phone hackers (called "phreaks") make free long-distance calls. Two members of California's Homebrew Computer Club begin making "blue boxes," devices used to hack into the phone system. The members, who adopt handles "Berkeley Blue" (Steve Jobs) and "Oak Toebark" (Steve Wozniak), later go on to found Apple Computer.This history website will tell more detail about the history.





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