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Hacker world has known since the computer exists, and they began to act over-smart since the Internet exists. Well if you are curious about who is the most cool Hacker in the world, this article will answer it.

1. Kevin Mitnick (born August 6 1963)

Kevin is known for his hacking action that horrendous enough in United States, and is “the most wanted computer criminal in United States history.” The story of his life was filmed 2 times by Hollywood, with the title ‘Takedown‘ and ‘Freedom Downtime‘.

Kevin launch his hacking action for the first time against transportation system in Los Angeles. After successfully penetrated the ‘punchcard’ system (card bus), he then can use the bus for free. Next action is Kevin penetrated the phone system, in which he can use the long distance telephone service for free.

Kevin had hacking on:
- DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) system
- IBM Mini Computers at ‘Computer Learning Center Los Angeles’
- Hacking system of Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu Siemens
- Tricking FBI

Kevin eventually be caught and the imprisonment of 5 years. Emergent himself in 2000. Once free, he was not allowed to use a telecommunications device and phone until 2003. After Kevin claim his rights in court, finally he allowed to use computer and communications equipment. Kevin is currently working as a computer security consultant.

2. Adrian Lamo (born 1981)

Adrian is a journalist and a ‘gray’ hacker (can be good, can be evil), especially known in a series of computer hacking on network that have high security level.

He started to known after successfully penetrate The New York Times and Microsoft computer systems in 2002 . He is also known as a hacker that can identify deficiencies in the company’s computer network security that’s included in the list of ‘Fortune 500 companies’ and then let they know the weaknesses that he found.

The case was examined by FBI for 15 months, after the New York Times reported the existence of a system that has been hacked. Finally, in 2003 Adrian known as the cause. Adrian was hiding a few days, and finally surrender himself to FBI in 2004.

Adrian eventually have to serve a sentence ‘house arrest’ by her parents, and 2 years probation with a fine of about $ 65,000. Adrian is also believed to tried to penetrate the computer systems Yahoo!, Sun Microsystems, Bank of America, and Citigroup, by exploiting the rift security.

3. Jonathan James (born 12 December 1983)

James is a youngest American that got penalties for cyber crime. In the age of 16 he was sent to prison because he has hacked the site of United States defense department.

He admitted that hacking is a challenge and is one of solitary joy. James also successfully steal (download) NASA software worth of $ 1.7 million U.S. dollars in 1999. NASA forced to shut down their server and system, consequences of James hacks for three weeks. And after that, NASA spent costs about $41,000 to fix their hacked system.

6 months after James hacked NASA, he then arrested in his home by local police at 6 am. He was 6 months imprisonment because he’s under age, and trial punishment ‘house arrest’ until his 21 years age. During that, James is not allowed to interact with computer for any reason.

James died on 18 May 2008, there is no information on what caused the death.