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The article kind of confuses hacker as in "Linus Torvalds is a hacker", and hacker as in "Kevin Mitnick is hacker". While I don't think the word cracker will ev
by theFco 15y ago
The article kind of confuses hacker as in "Linus Torvalds is a hacker", and hacker as in "Kevin Mitnick is hacker". While I don't think the word cracker will ever be popular, at least we should not mix the concepts.
- sofal 15y agoThe article uses "Black-Hat" and "White-Hat" terms to differentiate them. These are explained clearly at the beginning of the article. There doesn't seem to be any confusion.
- cdavoren 15y agoAs I understand it, both of these refer to the "cracker" definition; one is the "illegal hacker", the other is closer to "security consultant" with a hands-on connotation. "Hacker" in the Linus sense is totally different.