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  • MySpace Cofounder Tom Anderson Was A Real Life

    Pre 'Mosaic' only a few computers were meaningfully networked: military ones, university ones and banks. There were limited choices as to what you could hack into and security was no stronger than today's wifi routers. There was always the option to change login scripts but if you... more

    Reviewed by PipSqueak42 Aug 30 2008, 07:32pm ( 13 reviews ) • techcrunch.com

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  • Reviewed by Neel-B4-ZoD on Jun 05, 5:06pm

    From a so called WarGames Hacker to MySpace Lame-o. How the mighty have fallen.

  • Rated by Schitso on Sep 11 2008, 12:01am

    "Hacker" my ass. More like a retarded script kiddie.Edit: They may not have been called "script kiddies", but they were still just kids with just enough computer knowledge to run a program that automatically found AND exploited vulnerable systems. No matter what you call him, he wasn't "A Real Life Hacker".

  • Reviewed by Technicolour on Sep 09 2008, 8:39pm

    This was before the days of "script kiddies", Schitso. Believe it or not, this type of stuff existed before you were BORN.

  • Reviewed by miki90 on Sep 01 2008, 8:33pm

    MySpace Cofounder Tom Anderson Was A Real Life â€oeWarGames” Hacker in 1980s"

  • Rated by kokasexton on Aug 31 2008, 11:34am

    I knew that Tom was a shady guy. A hacker with information on 240+ million MySpace friends.

  • Rated by autox on Aug 30 2008, 8:55pm

    Did not know this - "MySpace Cofounder Tom Anderson Was A Real Life "WarGames" Hacker in 1980s"

  • Rated by PipSqueak42 on Aug 30 2008, 7:32pm

    Pre 'Mosaic' only a few computers were meaningfully networked: military ones, university ones and banks. There were limited choices as to what you could hack into and security was no stronger than today's wifi routers. There was always the option to change login scripts but if you messed up then you could lock everyone out of their computer systems... A bit like any other action sport, if you did not 'crash' then you were not trying. I am glad to see myspace Tom has the qualifications that no university hands out - top level, pre-Mosaic hacking. That said, hacking a university was like a 2:2 degree, a bank 2:1 and military a 1st. Gary McKinnon gets a first of extraordinary merit for being extradited.

  • Rated by turoczy on Aug 30 2008, 9:38am

    From the page: "In 1985, when he was fourteen and in high school in Escondido, California, Anderson was subject to one of the largest FBI raids in California history after hacking into a Chase Manhattan Bank computer system and subsequently showing his friends how to do it. "