that is when some one breaks into a technology system to steal or change data,
well it is not a new idea, back in 1834 the French government's communication system was hacked, the world’s first national
data network was constructed in France during the 1790s, it was a mechanical
telegraph system, consisting of chains of towers, each of which had a system of
movable wooden arms on top, different configurations of these arms corresponded
to letters, numbers and other characters, operators in each tower would adjust
the arms to match the configuration of an adjacent tower, observed through a
telescope, causing sequences of characters to ripple along the line, messages
could now be sent much faster than letters, whizzing from one end of France to
the other in minutes, the network was reserved for government use but in 1834
two bankers, François and Joseph Blanc, devised a way to subvert it to their
own ends, the plan was genius: they conspired to add in a code that
they could intercept ahead of their competitors in order to manipulate the
market, now this is the neat bit, the Blanc's were ground-breakers, in that
communications security was a completely new concept and there was no law yet
against what they did, so no crime had been committed! for the full story have a look here.
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