Section 3 Flashcards
Hacking the phone system is know as what?
Phone Phreaking
A kid maybe 13 who was born blind. An old tale is that if you lose one sense than your others are good. He had perfect pitch meaning that he could whistle in perfect tones. If he whistled certain tones it would give him access and he could get access to different phone systems.
Koe Engressia
The tone that Joe Engrressia could make is exactly what?
2600 hurts
2600 is a magazine published today.
True
First hacker getting a handle.
Captain Crunch
This hacker heard about the 2600 hurts tone and he wanted to find a way to make the tone for himself. He figured out that the cereal boxes that come with plastic whistles made the perfect 2600 hurts tone. All you had to do was blow the whistle and you would get access to the phones.
Captain Crunch
MIT in the 1960s finally got the first computers where you could walk up and touch the machine. True or False
True
A model railroad club who had experience with electronics and switches become the default expert on how to work the computer machine and become obsessed with it. The professors, students etc. could schedule computer time for the less desirable spots which gave the hackers the name of what?
Night Owls
What term pre-dates the computers at MIT?
Hack
Any kind of interesting solution to a problem was called a what?
Hack
A person who was good at creating innovative solutions was called a what?
Hacker
If you could do something in less lines of code it was really amazing. These hackers and hackers solved the problems.
Hack
Stephen Levey
Hacker ethic
- Information wants to be free (hackers hated passwords) 2. People should never be judged on anything but their ability to hack
Hacker Ethic
The military started thinking if we have a nuclear war then communication could be out because the hubs go through major cities. Universities like this because they wanted communication systems to talk from one university to another.
ARPANET 1969
We want a communication system that routes around damage. True or False
True
Four Universities Utah, Sanford, UCLA, and UC Santa Barber all had one giant internet network
ARPANET 1969
IBM made the giant big frame computers. If you bought it before the 60s, they would come and set it up for you and run your programs. True or False
True
ARPANET work is a baby of an internet. True or False
True
What year did companies start making miniaturized computer chips. You could finally start making a home computer by making their own. They would have clubs to show off what they made.
1970s
What automated the system for phone phreaking?
Blue Box
Little boxes that could plug into the phone and you use it to get around the phone system. People would sell these for money and use the profit to make their own computer.
Blue Box
Two people who sold blue boxes to make money to build their own computer?
Steve Wozniacki and Steve Jobs
The first computer kit that revolutionized home computers.
Altair
The Altair came as a bunch of pieces and if you were experienced it would still take you about 40 hours to assemble. True or False
True
Altair: The base model had no keyboard, mouse, or monitor. It was simply a box with switches and little led lights on it. It had a processor and a little bit of ram. Other features had to be bought and attached yourself. True or False
True
After the Altair came the what?
Apple II
In 1978 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniacki had a built-in monitor, keyboard, disk drive, and it had an operating system. The computer was there and ready to go. The genius of apple made a computer not for electrical engineers but for regular normal people. It was a huge hit!
Apple II
1980s IBM PC
OK
1983 The computer that lives in Norad the hacker breaker into the computer and tries to start WW3 and the hacker has to save the day and keep WW3 from happening. Hackers become __________.
Demonized
What was written on 1/8/86
Hacker Manifesto
1986 a guy gets arrested for being a hacker.
Hacker Manifesto
Trying to figure out how things worked, and he accidentally wrote a program that he was doing for diagnostics, but it become the first internet worm.
Morris Worm
______ is something that spreads automatically.
Worm
The Morris worm went from one computer to another and kept exploiting other computers. Within hours of Morris launching the worm around 30-40 thousand computers were taken offline and back then that was a ton.
True
Did Morris get arrested and was he one of the first to be convicted of computer crimes?
Yes
Take a piece of software and copy it to a disk and walk it to your friends house and they give it out. This is an example of what ?
Sneakernet
Own little miniature internet hosted just on one computer. Some nerd would have a computer and set up a modem to receive incoming calls and anybody that wanted to one at a time could dial the phone number of the BBSes and the computers would connect and you could talk to the computers.
BBSes
Trade Wars 2002
BBSes
BBSes saw a rise in phone phreaking.
True
8/12/81 IBM introduced the IBM PC.
True
The IBM PC took off and was incredibly popular. The biggest mistake ever was they thought the money was in the hardware and not the software. They hired ____ ______ to create an operating system but they didn’t do a contact and he sold it to everyone including Microsoft.
Bill gates
1990s Online services were very similar to BBSes and are system specific. Thousands of people on the same network that you could talk to all at once. There was local access and it was country wide. True or False
True
Prodigy
AOL
America Online
Online Services
What got rid of online services and now there is one internet for everyone?
World Wide Web
Computer Crime saw a rise because there were way more targets.
World Wide Web
Mid-90s he got caught and was in prison for 4-5 years. The best at social engineering. Famous and all over the news he was a big computer criminal of this time period. Now he’s a bad guy who turned good and is working on computers.
Kevin Mitnick
1995 movie that made hacking seem cool and gave hackers a lexicon and a look and influenced the hacker subculture.
Hacker
1,000,000 on the internet in what year?
1992
Instead if having to plug into a land cable you can now connect from anywhere. Tons of security problems with the early ones but not as bad today though.
Wireless Networks
How many people are on the internet in 2018?
3.2 Billion People
