Ask HN: What's the coolest hacking story you've heard?

• "Stalking the Wily Hacker" is about Cliff Stoll, a physicist at UC Berkley who invented cybersecurity after noticing that a few cents were missing from the computer lab. This story is WILD.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h7rLHNXio8

• The "graphing calculator story" is about how a crazy dev snuck into Apple every day for a year to create the beloved plotting app for MacOS.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl643JFJWig

I worked with Tim Paterson (guy who invented what became MS-DOS) at Microsoft. We were on the VB team. Once I came into his office while he was viewing a hex dump. He was reading generated code. He had memorized the x86 opcodes and it was just too slow for him to look at assembly output.

Firstly, hacking isn't "cool". Just imagine if you were the victim, it's a serious issue that is illegal in many parts of the world.

With that in mind, in my opinion, the Pegasus is quite "cool" (synonym for scary).

Stuxnet. How Israel and the US used a virus to slow Iranian uranium enrichment.