Episode 49 - René Carmille & The Birth of Ethical Hacking

René Carmille is considered one of the first hackers. Today, we’d call him a hacktivist, or someone who sabotages a computer for ethical reasons. Carmille sabotaged the Nazi census of France during World War II. He saved many thousands of Jewish people by hacking Hollerith machines during the war.

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Sources:

The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age, Andrew Whitby

IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation, Edwin Black 

Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880–1945, Lars Heide

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40060581?read-now=1&seq=5#page_scan_tab_contents 

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nuremberg-race-laws

https://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/barbie.html

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/klaus-barbie-izieu-childrens-home

https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1996/07/17/indemniser-toutes-les-victimes-juives-du-nazisme-rene-carmille-mon-pere_3718874_1819218.html

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/1942-1945/liberation-of-dachau

https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1997/12/31/une-lettre-de-robert-carmille_3802687_1819218.html