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I think it’s fine. Script kiddie is a strict subset of “hacker” in the negative sense of the word “hacker”. It’s a way to convey to the reader the level of soph
by bitexploder 5y ago
I think it’s fine. Script kiddie is a strict subset of “hacker” in the negative sense of the word “hacker”. It’s a way to convey to the reader the level of sophistication used in the attack by describing the hacker in this way.
- haimez 5y agoRight, and there should be a sense of shame associated with being pwned by, for example, not setting a password on your public internet accessible (redis || postgres || mongo) instances. You didn’t get hacked, you let a child have their way with your application. Hence: script kiddie
- kbatten 5y agoscript kiddie is simply a hacker term, it has nothing to do with age or even skill.
- haimez 5y ago> it has nothing to do with age… It’s in the name, so it doesn’t seem worth disputing that at least at the time when the term was coined- it did have to do with age > or even skill Skill is literally the defining feature. What exactly do you mean by “it’s simply a hacker term” anyway? Are words just sounds we make with our mouths?