Being a genius or a famous person does not mean that you are a man who does not sin. Many well-known figures, both in art, politics, technology and in many other areas, have made mistakes in their lives. Some of them have been sentenced to prison or a fine. In this post I will try to tell you about the top 11 computer geniuses who have been arrested and even imprisoned!
Bill Gates is a cook who knows this man, he is the founder of the most important software companies in the world. But what you may not know is that he spent a short time in prison, but the reason is not related to the Internet and property rights, but was arrested for a traffic violation.
Kevin Mitnick, one of the most famous hackers in the world, had a past with arrests at an early age when he was arrested on charges of tampering with government property and destroying data over a computer network in 1990. After three months in prison, the man returned to his old habit and was arrested again in 1995 on charges of manipulating and penetrating computer systems at Fujitsu, Motorola, Nokia and Sun Microsystems, and sentenced to five years in prison.
Kim Dutcom, owner of the most popular file sharing site, was sentenced to a suspended prison sentence in 1994 for computer fraud and spying on data. He was arrested in early 2012 on charges of hacking on the Intranet. He then announced a challenge with the FBI and developed a new version of the service called Mega.
John McAfee, founder of McAfee, is one of the first people to design an antiviral program that was arrested in 2012 in Guatemala on suspicion of manufacturing unlicensed drugs and possession of a weapon, and on November 12 of the same year he was charged with murder for his neighbor. On the intranet to search for the killer and prove his innocence.
Sean Parker is one of the founders of Facebook and is also a founding shareholder of Napster and many other platforms. But this spoiled boy was arrested for possession of cocaine. This was pointed out in one of the scenes of the social network film (2010).
George Hoots was one of the hackers who spent Apple and Sony on the iPhone and the PlayStation 3 in March 2012. All of his devices were released before he reached an agreement with Sony. This genius was arrested again but not because of penetration, but possession of marijuana. Make him pay $ 1500 before leaving prison.
Julian Assange, founder and president and spokesman for Wikileaks, Assange was considered a man of the year by Le Monde. After leaking secret documents about US diplomacy, they tried in every way to arrest the man, but his last "fabricated" charges were his alleged rape in Sweden. Julian Assange is currently in isolation at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst for the US military, accused Manning of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks. The soldier is currently being held at a military base in Quantico, Virginia.
Peter Sund, one of the founders of the famous Pirate Bay site with all kinds of torrent files, was arrested in March this year and is serving his sentence in a prison in Sweden.
Sabo is a leader of the LulzSec group that attacked many sites and systems around the world, Hector Javier and known as Sabo, was arrested in mid-2011 and is considered by Sabo "Wash" by group members, to help him capture the FBI's group of other hackers.
Hamza Bin Dalaj, one of the hackers who stunned the Federal Bureau of Investigation, this young Algerian managed to penetrate more than 217 banks and thousands of international bank accounts, which made a fortune estimated millions of dollars. The smiling young man was arrested in 2013 at Bangkok airport, a Thai capital after a search warrant issued by the US state of Georgia.