Kevin Lee Poulsen

Kevin Lee Poulsen. American computer scientist and researcher. Famous hacker known as Dark Dante.

Summary

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  • 1 Biographical synthesis
    • 1 Work trajectory
    • 2 Acknowledgments
  • 2 Sources

Biographical synthesis

He was born in 1965 in Pasadena , California , USA .

Career path

The first known trespassing act was in 1983 , when he was 17 years old. At the time, his parents had bought him a TRS-80 with which they enter with an older hacker on the ARPAnet (the Internet’s predecessor) at the University of California UCLA .

Known as Dark Dante. He was the first hacker to be charged with espionage in the United States . The 1 of June of 1990 , being in search by the FBI , win a Porsche 944 to 102 being the call in a radio contest (before “hacking” your PABX). Use the same technique to win a trip to Hawaii .

In June of 1994 , he was convicted of the crimes of illegal eavesdropping, wiretapping, fraud, money laundering and obstruction of justice; the sentence was 51 months in prison, and he was fined $ 56,000 in restitution, to the radio station, for the Porsche.

In October of 2006 , he published information detailing your search pederástras successfully registered with MySpace. His work helped identify 744 people registered with MySpace profiles, and led to the arrest of one, Andrew Lubrano .

Recognitions

He won recognition for his hacking of the Los Angeles phone lines and KIIS-FM Radio , guaranteeing that he would be the 102nd caller and win the prize for a Porsche 944 S2.

 

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