ss_blog_claim=fae120e5c1d5998d026dfd45fe319473 Hack to Learn: Hackers vs Crackers

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Hackers vs Crackers


"...............There is another group of people who loudly call themselves hackers, but aren't. These are people (mainly adolescent males) who get a kick out of breaking into computers and phreaking the phone system. Real hackers call these people ‘crackers’ and want nothing to do with them. Real hackers mostly think crackers are lazy, irresponsible, and not very bright, and object that being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker any more than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer. Unfortunately, many journalists and writers have been fooled into using the word ‘hacker’ to describe crackers; this irritates real hackers no end.

source: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is

The basic difference is this: hackers build things, crackers break them..............."

..so which one u want to be?be behave hacker

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