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Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
Kevin Mitnick
American hacker (1963–2023)
Robert Tappan Morris
American computer scientist; creator of Morris Worm; associate professor at MIT
George Hotz
American hacker
Kevin Poulsen
hacking experience with Kevin Lee Poulsen
Jonathan James
American computer criminal (1983-2008)
Virgil Griffith
American computer programmer
Albert Gonzalez
American computer hacker and computer criminal
Alan Kotok
American computer scientist (1941–2006)
Richard Greenblatt
American programmer (born 1944)
Jude Milhon
American hacker and author (1939–2003)
Loyd Blankenship
American hacker
Jeremy Hammond
American political activist and hacker (born 1985)
Gordon Lyon
American network security expert, open source programmer, writer, and a hacker
Barrett Brown
American journalist, essayist and satirist
Dan Kaminsky
American security researcher (1979–2021)
Hector Monsegur
American computer hacker and co-founder of the hacking group LulzSec
Mark Abene
American security expert and entrepreneur
Joybubbles
Joybubbles ( – ), born Josef Carl Engressia Jr. in Richmond, Virginia, was an early phone phreak. Born blind, he became interested in telephones at age four. He had absolute pitch, and was able to whistle 2600 hertz — an operator tone also used by blue box phreaking devices — into a telephone. Joybubbles said that he had an IQ of "172 or something". Joybubbles died at his Minneapolis home on . According to his death certificate, he died of natural causes with congestive heart failure as a contributing condition.
Jeff Moss
American hacker
Peiter Zatko
computer hacker
Matt DeHart
former U.S. intelligence analyst and sex offender
Hunter Moore
American Internet personality and revenge porn operator
Justin Tanner Petersen
American computer criminal