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The First Hacker

It's hard to ascribe "firsts" in history. Did Ada Lovelace write the first computer program? Does it count if it is a mechanical computer? Are Bombe and Tunny really computers in the modern sense? Was Pong the first home video game? Who was the first hacker?

What is a hacker? Someone who (maliciously or otherwise) convinces a computer to do something that it isn't supposed to do. Sometimes for fun and som

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The First Hacker

It’s hard to ascribe “firsts” in history. Did Ada Lovelace write the first computer program? Does it count if it is a mechanical computer? Are Bombe and Tunny really computers in …

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re LB: from https://web.archive.org/web/20150404142154/http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-focus/technology-history/a-history-of-hacking :

"Carmille successfully sabotaged the assignment until 1944, when the Nazis discovered what he was doing. He was arrested, tortured, and sent to the concentration camp in Dachau, Germany, where he died the following year. Despite his tragic end, Carmille saved an untold number of lives."

A History of Hacking - IEEE - The Institute

People have been breaking into systems electronically for more than a century