Hacking
Probing how computer systems or networks work and making them behave in unintended ways. The term covers both intrusion that exploits vulnerabilities and technical exploration in general.
In 2011, a 75-year-old woman in Georgia digging for scrap metal severed a fiber-optic cable with her spade, knocking out 12 hours of Internet for neighboring Armenia, which routed 90% of its traffic through Georgia. Media nicknamed her the 'spade hacker'.
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Sandra Bullock was the first person to buy a movie ticket over the Internet. In 1995, Disney/MGM set up a demo site to promote her hacking thriller 〈The Net〉, and she paid $17.70 for two tickets at Hollywood's Egyptian Theatre — warily noting: "no double verification."
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In January 2022, porn featuring Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII was played during an Italian Senate Zoom meeting. A senator had exposed the login credentials on Facebook, allowing an outsider to hijack the session and stream the video for about 30 seconds.
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In 1957, a blind boy named Joe Engressia with perfect pitch discovered that whistling a 2600Hz tone into a telephone could manipulate the phone system. This became known as 'phreaking.' Among the next generation it inspired were Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
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