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Written by Katy Mullin - Director Content Development
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 Reading the November issue of the Discover magazine, I came across an interesting list of facts about computer hacking, titled “20 Things You Didn’t Know About Computer Hacking. While this isn’t really my area of expertise, I found a few nuggets in the list fun to learn about:
1) Computer hacking was born in the 1950s, when members of MIT’s Tech Model Railroad Club, obsessed with electric switching, began preparing punch cards to control an IBM 704 mainframe
2) By the early 1970s, John Draper had used a toy whistle to match the 2,600-hertz tone used by AT&T’s long-distance switching system. This gave him access to call routing (and brief access to jail)
3) Before they struck it rich, Apple founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs made and sold “blue boxes,” electronic versions of Draper’s whistle
4) Using a blue box, Wozniak crank-called the Pope’s residence in Vatican City and pretended to be Henry Kissinger
5) Think your Mac is hack-proof? At this year’s CanSecWest conference, security researcher Charlie Miller used a flaw in Safari to break into a MacBook in under 10 seconds
6) Cyborgs beware: Tadayoshi Kohno at the University of Washington recently hacked into a wireless defibrillator, causing it to deliver a fatal-strength jolts of electricity
7) This does not bode well for patients receiving wireless deep-brain stimulators |
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