White Hat Hackers
Hackers that use their skills for good are classified as “white hat.”These white hats often work as certified “Ethical Hackers,” hired by companies to test the integrity of their systems. Others, operate without company permission by bending but not breaking laws and in the process have created some really cool stuff.Among them is
Stephen Wozniak: “Woz” is famous for being the “other Steve” of Apple. Wozniak, along with current Apple CEO Steve Jobs, co-founded Apple Computer. Woz got his start in hacking making blue boxes, devices that bypass telephone-switching mechanisms to make free long-distance calls. After reading an article about phone phreaking in Esquire, Wozniak called up his buddy Jobs. The pair did research on frequencies, then built and sold blue boxes to their classmates in college. Wozniak even used a blue
box to call the Pope while pretending to be Henry Kissinger:lol: .Wozniak dropped out of college and came up with the computer that eventually made him famous. Jobs had the bright idea to sell the computer as a fully assembled PC board. The Steves sold Wozniak’s cherished scientific calculator and Jobs’ VW van for capital
and got to work assembling prototypes in Jobs’ garage. Wozniak designed the hardware and most of the software. In the Letters section of Woz.org, he recalls doing “what Ed Roberts and Bill Gates and Paul Allen did and tons more, with no help.” Wozniak and Jobs sold the first 100 of the
Apple I to a local dealer for $666.66 each.
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