Hackers
Software/Open Source
Homebrew Computer Club
Concepts
Phone Phreaks
100
This visionary, beaded, nonhacking youngster took Wozniak's Apple II, made lots of deals, and formed a company that would make billions of dollars.
Who is Steve Jobs?
100
Since its inception in 1991, this operating system has grown to become a force in computing, powering everything from the New York Stock Exchange to mobile phones to supercomputers to consumer devices.
What is Linux?
100
This Homebrew member hosted the first meeting in his garage.
Who is Gordon French?
100
This is an iterative, collaborative, and incremental method of managing the design and building software and usually the preferred method of most hackers.
What is agile software development?
100
This phone hacker went by the pseudonym "Captain Crunch" who fearlessly explored phone systems, was jailed, and later hacked microcomputers for Apple. Cigarettes made him violent.
Who is John Draper?
200
This cocky computer wizard and Harvard dropout wrote Altair BASIC and complained when people copied it.
Who is Bill Gates?
200
This license is the most widely used free software license, which guarantees end users (individuals, organizations, companies) the freedoms to use, study, share (copy), and modify the software.
What is the GNU General Public License (GPL)?
200
This individual lambasted the early Homebrew hackers of the time for pirating commercial software programs.
Who is Bill Gates?
200
This position argues that technology and humans effect each other in both directions.  Technology does push us to behave and communicate in certain ways.  Technology creates certain “affordances” and these are often used in new and unpredictable ways.
What is social shaping of technology?
200
Long before Apple, these individuals read the 1971 article in Esquire magazine titled "Secrets of the Blue Blox", and immediately went out to make blue boxes themselves to sell to their friends.
Who are Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak?
300
This MIT hacker is among Levy's "True Hackers". He designed the first control box for Spacewar and became a famous PDP-1 hacker.
Who is Alan Kotok?
300
This hacker founded the Free Software Foundation and provided the intellectual framework that led to the open source movement - a critical element of modern software and the Internet itself.
Who is Richard Stallman?
300
This individual credits the first Homebrew Computer Club meeting with inspiring him to design the Apple I.
Who is Steve Wozniak?
300
This view of society and technology would say that technology creates a set of powerful forces acting to regulate our social activity and its meaning to such a degree that humans have no way of controlling it.
What is technological determinism?
300
This phone phreaker is one of the most interesting characters of the early phreaking movement. Blind and with perfect pitch, he was one of the first, in the late fifties, to figure out how to control the phone network by whistling notes of specific frequencies.
Who is Joe Engressia?
400
This MIT hacker created the first music program. He proudly presented the music compiler to DEC to distribute to anyone who wanted it. No copyright here.
Who is Peter Samson?
400
This hacker is the principle author and force behind the development of the Linux kernel that became the most popular kernel for operating systems.
Who is Linus Torvalds?
400
This Homebrew member and designer of the Osborne 1 became the moderator of the club.
Who is Lee Felsenstein?
400
This is a sequential design process, used in software development processes, in which progress is seen as flowing steadily downwards through the phases of conception, initiation, analysis, design, construction, testing, and ultimately deployment or marketing.
What is the waterfall development model.
400
The investigation and prosecution of several hackers by the this law enforcement agency, led to a decrease in phone phreaking and displaced much of the remaining activity to coin phones.
What is the FBI?
500
According to Levy, this single minded, unkempt, prolific, and canonical MIT hacker went into night phase so often that he zorched his academic career. The hacker's hacker.
Who is Richard Greenblatt?
500
This open source software is among the most popular for web servers.
What is Apache?
500
This Homebrew member worried that the love affair with technology might blindly lead to abuse of that technology.
Who is Fred Moore?
500
This position argues that people are the primary sources of change in both technology and society. This perspective focuses on how technologies arise from social processes and focuses on the people, because it is people who make the devices.
What is social construction of technology?
500
Social engineering became this hacker's primary method of obtaining information including user-names, passwords, and modem phone numbers to gain information. He is a transitional figure in hacking and is among the first to associate hacking with criminal activity.
Who is Kevin Mitnick?
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