Hackers can fulfill awesome actions....
 

Get a posrche by cheating at a radiophonic game : Kevin Poulsen

Status : former black hat
Nick name : Dark Dante
Actions :
•    Worked his way into the California university ARPAnet network
•    Robbed a classified top secret magnetic tape from the Pentagone 
•    Cracked an Army computer, snooped into the MASnet network, and stagged into a FBI investigation of former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos
•    Trespassed illegally in the Pacific Bell terminal where he stole material

Now Kevin Poulsen is head redactor of Wired magazine, but things used to be different... Indeed he used to be a dreadful phreaker (hacking phone lines, radio and satellite), a hacking prodigy, a genuine legend. The most astonishing part is that one of the charges against him is a picture taken by his friend as a souvenir, whiles he was breaking in a phone center from the Pacific Bell. Amazing…

Just before seeing the judge, Kevin Poulsen flew away and remained out of reach from the police for 17 months.

While getting away, he performed his most well-known hacking. He came out as the 102nd caller, and won a Porsche when phreaking the telephone terminals of Los Angeles radio station



Hack the police terminals… to escape the police : Kevin David Mitnick

Status : former black hat (today, he is the head of his own computer security firm ).
Nick name : The Condor
Actions :
•    Used Pacific Bell's phone lines for his personal use
•    Broke in a Pentagon computer through the Southern California University network
•    Got into the systems of Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu, Motorola, and  Nokia, and stole private softwares .
Kevin David Mitnick may be the most famous hacker in history. The movie “Takedown” was based on his hectic adventure with the FBI.

Many details of his life remain unsolved. Indeed, we still don't know why the government kept going at him (some say a 5-year prison sentence is a lot for what he actually did).

After spying on  Pacific Bell voice mail system, he got chased by the police for 2 years and a half. During his getaway he proved  to be unstoppable, which turned the police  quite ridiculous. Actually, federal agents were convinced he was spying on their phoning, since he always escaped just before they could catch him !
Eventually, he got captured  in 1995, by former Japanese hacker Tsutomu Shimomura.

 
Prove  aliens do exist  : Gary McKinnon

Status: grey hat (he still is at the moment)
Nick name : Solo
Actions :
•    Snooped into  97 army computers, some of which belonged to the Navy, the NASA, the Air Force, the American Defense and the Pentagon.
•    Turned down the computer system of a « Navy Installation » right after the 11th of September 2001, which was a critical period. 
Gary McKinnon is way sure that OVNIS exist, and he intrudes military systems only to gather evidence of that. He believes also that the USA own an anti-gravity technology. According to the United States, he is responsible for “the greatest computer hacking of all times”, with casualties of 700 000 USD.

Gary McKinnon is British and struggles against his extradition to the USA. Indeed, he could receive a 70-year prison sentence if he were founded guilty.

French magazine Le Figaro described his sorry plight : he is a man who “ no longer washes, lives wearing a dressing gown in his flat, fired from his work and left by his girlfriend ”. He spends nights and days in his North-London room, hacking military US computers so as to find some  information concealed from civilians.