The article recounts the historic incident in 1903 when Guglielmo Marconi's wireless transmission demonstration was famously hacked by magician Nevil Maskelyne, revealing vulnerabilities in Marconi's supposedly secure communication system. Maskelyne intercepted the transmission and sent a mocking message, demonstrating the ease of bypassing the technology that Marconi claimed was unbreakable. This event is noted as the first recorded act of public hacking.