Stephen Wozniak: A white hat hacker
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Stephen Gary Wozniak BORN: August 11,1950 WHERE: San Jose, California OCCUPATION: Entrepreneur, Computer Programmer, Engineer, Inventor, Hacker Steve Wozniak was the main designer on the Apple I and Apple II computers together with Steve Jobs (business brains) and others. The Apple II is noted as the first commercially successful line of personal computers, featuring a […]
Tim Berners-Lee, A Hacker?
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Tim Berners-Lee BORN: June 8, 1955 WHERE: London, England OCCUPATION: Computer Programmer While working with CERN, a European nuclear research organization, Berners-Lee created a hypertext prototype system that helped researchers share and update information easily. He later realized that hypertext could be joined with the Internet. Berners-Lee recounts how he put them […]
David Mitnick: “The Condor”
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Kevin David Mitnick (a.k.a The Condor) BORN: August 6, 1963 WHERE: Los Angeles OCCUPATION: Computer consultant and Author What did he do? At age 12, Mitnick used social engineering to by pass the punch card system used in the Los Angeles bus system. After a friendly bus driver told him where he could […]
A man called as “Dark Dante”
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Kevin Poulsen (a.k.a. Dark Dante) BORN: 1965 WHERE: Pasadena, California OCCUPATION: Senior Editor at Wired News When Kevin Poulsen was 17, he used his primitive TRS-80 “color computer” to hack into the US Department of Defense’s Arpanet, the predecessor of the Internet. He wasn’t prosecuted. He was later a computer programmer at […]
“From pen to keyboard”
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Eric Gordon Corley (a.k.a. Emmanuel Goldstein) BORN: December 16, 1959 WHERE: Suffolk County, New York OCCUPATION: Writer, Editor, Publisher, Talk Show host Corley’s pseudonym, Emmanuel Goldstein, is taken from the George Orwell book Nineteen Eighty-Four. In which, Emmanuel Goldstein is the mysterious and questionably existent leader of the opposition to Big Brother […]
The man who found-out the “computer outlaw”
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Tsutomu Shimomura BORN: October 23, 1964 WHERE: Nagoya, Japan OCCUPATION: Physicist and Programmer Tsutomu shimomura was the son of Osamu Shimomura, winner of 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He grew up in Princeton New Jersey and there he attended at Princeton High School. At Caltech he studied under Nobel laureate Richard Feynman. […]
US Governments Sites, Taken Down by Anonymous
Anonymous have struck again. Once again taking down government websites as a form of protests. They always have a reason for these “attacks”. They have said that they would always have a reason to protest against the government. They don’t take down websites for no reason at all. The hacker group has been very active […]
PCOS Tests satisfied Comelec’s Expectations
The Precinct Count Optical Scan or PCOS machines have been used by the Comelec to automate the counting of votes during elections. The first time it was used was at last year’s election. It drew a lot of controversies being that it would be a huge leap for the Philippines since it came from having a manual votes […]
Gangnam Style: It’s More Fun in Baguio!
Yet another video using Gangnam Style as the background music. Getting old? Maybe, but this video is rather special, especially to the students of Saint Louis University in Baguio and to the residents in Baguio City. The reason being is, the backdrop of the music video made was set in Baguio and the main person who was […]
The stage is set for GOOGLE PHILIPPINES
After long years of waiting, Google is now setting its fifth stage on Southeast Asian region in the Philippines, following consecutive establishment of bases in Malaysia, Thailand, and most recently Indonesia over the past several years, aside from its regional Singapore office. Google launched the opening of Google Philippines Wednesday, January 23, 2013 in Taguig […]
