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"Hacker" is a bit like the term "witch" in the Wizard of Oz. "Are you a good hacker, or a bad hacker?" The techniques and thinking styles are the same, either
by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
"Hacker" is a bit like the term "witch" in the Wizard of Oz.
"Are you a good hacker, or a bad hacker?"
The techniques and thinking styles are the same, either way.
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- brlewis 18y agoDecades ago to crack into a computer you needed to be a hacker, since computers were all different. Today we have "script kiddies" who most definitely aren't hackers, but are crackers. I don't think there's a script-kiddie equivalent for phone systems.
- byrneseyeview 18y agoI thought the original hackers were almost exclusively using AT&T's system.
- blogimus 18y agoConsidering that Ma Bell was a monopoly until 1984, I'd agree. To paraphrase John Draper (aka Captain Crunch), "A system is a system, whether a phone network or a computer."