Hacker Movies
Three Letter Agencies
Bits and Bytes
Cryptography
Famous Hackers
100

Zero Cool is the star of this movie, where his claim to fame is crashing 1,507 systems in one day

Hackers

100

This is the agency that will give you the "love pat" at airports all over America

TSA

100

This is "7" in hexadecimal

7

100

"This simple cipher shifts each character by a given value"

"Caesar cipher"

100

"This is the core maintainer of the Linux operating system"

"Linus Torvalds"

200

This is the name of the game that a young hacker thinks he's playing with the WOPR Supercomputer

"Global Thermonuclear War"

200

This agency is famous for the "prism" technology this year

NSA

200

"This is the largest number that can be represented with 8 bits"

255

200

"This was the effective keysize of the DES cipher"

"56 bits (7 bytes)"

200

"Rumors that he could launch nuclear missiles by whistling into the phone caused this man to be left in solitary confinement for 8 months"

"Kevin Mitnick"

300

Takedown, a 2000 film never released, is the story of the pursuit and arrest of this famous hacker

"Kevin Mitnick"

300

This agency, amongst other things, regulates alcohol and firearms

ATF

300

"This is the hex number 0x80, in decimal"

128

300

"This country was the first to break the Enigma machine"

"Poland (at the Polish Cipher Bureau)"

300

"John "Captain Crunch" Draper discovered that toy whistles from the Captain Crunch box blew this very important frequency"

"2600 hertz"

400

This symbol was used to indicate back-doored Web sites in The Net

Pi

400

What is the best Federal Agency?

FBI

400

This is the most common technique for representing negative numbers at the bit level

Two's complement

400

"The AES standards defines this many possible block sizes"

"1 (128 bits)"

400

"This man wrote - and shares his name with - the first (known) computer worm in history"

"Robert Morris"

500

Superman III movie, "The Plague" tries to distract from his crime (salami slicing) by framing the hackers with a computer virus set to do what?

"capsize an oil tanker"

500

This agency led the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden

CIA

500

"This is the two's complement of the binary number, 11111111"

"1 (or 00000001)"

500

"This cipher was used incorrectly in WEP"

RC4

500

"This man helped the FBI capture Kevin Mitnick"

"Tsutomu Shimomura"