Hackers have begun to have a special place in Mythology: powerful, jokester-like creatures, as likely to kill you as to make you wake up with hundreds of random items waiting to be signed for at your front door. Loki with a keyboard; and an easy target for a slow news day.

• Steve Wozniak
• Shawn "Napster" Fanning
• Robert Morris
• Captain Crunch
• Kevin Mitnick