6 notorious hackers and their second careers

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans

The traditional hacker of yore, commonly thought of as a pimply adolescent with Cheetos-colored fingers, is all grown up now. But in the Clinton-era glory days, the hacker was seen as a technological terror, plying a trade few understood. Most of the infamous hackers of Internet past are all adults now, with mortgages, car payments and jobs — some very good ones, too. They’ve passed the torch to people like Julian Assange and the “hacktivist” group Anonymous, whose combined efforts have seen them target everyone from the Church of Scientology to the U.S. military to PayPal. Fortune decided to find out what happened to some of the most infamous hackers of the 1980s and 1990s. They made hacking famous in a hazy and distant past, when you couldn’t connect to the Internet without robust a dial tone, and when AOL discs were actually something that people were excited to find in their mailboxes. You may be surprised at what these 6 are doing now. Mark Abene Mark Abene was a kid from Queens, New York who became famous as the hacker known as “Phiber Optik.” In 1992, he went to Federal prison after pleading guilty to hacking into the computer […]

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