kristoffersantiago 36 Report post Posted September 8, 2016 THE FIRST HACKER: This magician/inventor was responsible for hijacking and revealing security flaws in Guglielmo Marconi's first long-range wireless communications system. Who was he? brainXploit 2: https://community.elearnsecurity.com/topic/3535-brainxploit2-the-worlds-first-digital-weapon/ 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
caneacsu 253 Report post Posted September 8, 2016 This first hack took place in 1903 and it was performed by Nevil Maskelyne. He was a magician and inventor Cool story ^^ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pierluigi.castellana 0 Report post Posted September 9, 2016 Though it wasn’t yet called “hacking,” the earliest known incidents of modern technological mischief date from 1878 and the early days of the Bell Telephone Company. Teenage boys hired by Bell as switchboard operators intentionally misdirected and disconnected telephone calls, eavesdropped on conversations, and played a variety of other pranks on unsuspecting customers. The first bona fide appearance of a computer hacker occurs nearly 100 years later, in the 1960s. A “hack” has always been a kind of shortcut or modification—a way to bypass or rework the standard operation of an object or system. The term originated with model train enthusiasts at MIT who hacked their train sets in order to modify how they worked. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arunthomas115 5 Report post Posted September 9, 2016 The magician who was responsible for hijacking and revealing security flaws in Guglielmo Marconi's first long-range wireless communications system was Nevil Maskelyne (1863-1924)(A Magician and a Hacker). He used the Morse code to perform this cool trick and now he remains as the first hacker in history. Nice Story .... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GiRa 460 Report post Posted September 10, 2016 I think we can go back to the Ancient Greeks and even the Ancient Egyptians, but I'd go for Leonardo Da Vinci 'cause he's Italian: he "shuffled" the mill to produce textile products, then he shuffled again to build weapons and back to textile. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kristoffersantiago 36 Report post Posted September 14, 2016 And yep, you guys are right. There's a pretty cool story behind it - https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228440-700-dot-dash-diss-the-gentleman-hackers-1903-lulz/ Congratulations, @arunthomas115! You win an Early Bird Access to the "Secret Project" which we'll be revealing soon! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
