I'm a hacker.

Severin Hacker.

CA

So this is the project. Here's how it started.

I prefer to be called a hacker. God. You know what this is?

And they're not all bad.

So your idea worth spreading is hire hackers.

Why? Because these things don't evolve by themselves.

Criminals understand this.

(Laughter)

More safe, more secure.

But now, three years later, here's where we stand.

This program is going to focus on computer hacking issues today.

Time Magazine would later name, as their 2011 Person of the Year, The Protester .

I wrote a magazine, was prosecuted for it when I was a teenager.

And as you see, in the middle, there is our old friend, the hacker.

And they are doing some fantastic research into the characteristics, into the abilities and the socialization of hackers.

And then finally, Cagatay Evyapan, aka Cha0 one of the most remarkable hackers ever, from Ankara in Turkey.

And these hackers had a word for those mysterious bugs in telegraph systems that they called bugs.

By the way, you did hear me correctly his last name is Hacker.

If the government wants to find out how you voted, they won't be able to.

On July 14, 2011, federal prosecutors indict Swartz on four felony counts.

The people who are attracted to these courses typically have a hacker mentality.

And the first people who saw that were the telegraphers of the mid 19th century, who were the original hackers.

And what do you know, nobody else does talk to the hackers.

More recently, the U.S. government revealed that in September 2008, more than 3 million people in the state of Espirito Santo in Brazil were plunged into darkness, victims of a blackmail operation from cyber pirates.

It would be just as much fun to talk about some stuff that happened in 1986 and 1987, when a computer hacker is breaking into our systems over at Lawrence Berkeley Labs.

Now the interesting thing about RedBrigade is that he wasn't an advanced hacker.

It turned transactions into interactions, and generosity into a currency.

The other life is lived in computers where you go by the hacker alias Neo and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for.

Well real organized crime on the Internet goes back about 10 years when a group of gifted Ukrainian hackers developed a website, which led to the industrialization of cybercrime.

Manning had been under arrest at the time, it was unknown whether he was the source of the leak.

He gets indicted on the same day that two people in England who are part of LulzSec get arrested, and a few other real hackers.

I saw the GPS derived timing of the New York Stock Exchange being manipulated by hackers.

They have an ego, they like challenge, and of course they like money and everything you can get for money.

People figured that it would be too complex or too expensive for some hacker to build one.

Instead, we prefer these really dazzling technological solutions, which cost a huge amount of money.

Now, so far I've mentioned the hackers Anonymous who are a politically motivated hacking group.

This is ready for use, out of the box stuff, which you can deploy even if you're not a terribly sophisticated hacker.

And it is in fact due to this arms race between hackers and operating system designers that things go back and forth.

Well, in the Android platform, for example, the developers have a manifest where every device on there, the microphone, etc., has to register if you're going to use it so that hackers can't take over it, but nobody controls the accelerometer.

They are recruiting hackers both before and after they become involved in criminal and industrial espionage activities are mobilizing them on behalf of the state.

How would someone get over that kind of fear that the hacker they hire might preserve that little teensy wormhole?

And the other thing is the high incidence of hackers like these who have characteristics which are consistent with Asperger's syndrome.

I've been talking about have been silicon based, ones and zeroes, but there's another operating system out there the original operating system, DNA.