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>4) a person who illegally gains access to and sometimes tampers with information in a computer system >This is the last one because it is the least accurate a
by clef 13y ago
>4) a person who illegally gains access to and sometimes tampers with information in a computer system
>This is the last one because it is the least accurate and has been created only in recent times by the media.
By recent times, you mean since the mid/late 80's when hacking sort of got known in the mainstream after phreaking?
>"Anyone that takes a look at a goal and a given set of resources then figures out an unconventional way to achieve that goal"
I want to be rich! therefore I choose to rob a bank (my unconventional way of achieving that goal), does that make me a hacker too? (Like a bank hacker)
Awesome article nonetheless!
- icantthinkofone 13y agoYou are confused as many people grow up and enter this field. The original term for the bad guys was "crackers" and all crackers are hackers but not all hackers are crackers. The media doesn't understand that and now all the young people growing up have the term 'hacker' all confused and messed up and ruined for the rest of us.
- krapp 13y agoThe media communicates in the language that its audience understands. It isn't their job to enforce linguistic referential integrity, and "crackers" carries some negative connotations, at least in the US.
- roel_v 13y agoPray tell, when was this mythical era when a sizable group of people actually made this distinction and used them as two separate concepts? Warning: this is a trick question, I'm almost old, so I have actual first-hand recollection of these days of yore you seem to be lamenting.
- icantthinkofone 13y agoI'm probably older than you but, based on your question, far more experienced in the field.