I believe that you're diluting the word "hacker" and putting it into a stereotype you have either only seen on tv shows or heard your friends ranting about. "Ha

I believe that you're diluting the word "hacker" and putting it into a stereotype you have either only seen on tv shows or heard your friends ranting about. "Hackers" are just programmers that love to code and solve problems, and they do it well. BSS and buffer overflows and the such were just interesting problems/challenges that they found interesting ways to overcome or dominate. The closest thing I can put to your description of "hacker" is the ZF0. http://r00tsecurity.org/files/zf05.txt http://r00tsecurity.org/files/zf05.txt . They "hack" as you say, it's a great read. And guess where i found it? HN :P