Hackers - Crackers

lynchknot · Feb 13, 2005

ah-ha! they are now working in cahoots!

Firecat · Feb 13, 2005

lynchknot said:

ah-ha! they are now working in cahoots!
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Bingo!

Jimbob1989 · Feb 13, 2005

hayc59 said:

Hacker:
The dictionary defines "hacker" as a slang term describing a person who carries out or manages something successful. A hacker is someone who spends many hours with the computer often successfully operating it by trial and error without first referring to the manual. A hacker is often a technical person in the computer field, such as assembly language programmer or systems programmer. Today the term hacker has taken on a negative meaning. The news media has often used the term hacker in a derogatory manner to refer to people that use their technical knowledge to gain unauthorized access and perform mischievous or destructive activity in computer systems and data banks.
Cracker:
An individual who attempts to gain unauthorised access to a computer system. These individuals are often malicious and have many means at their disposal for breaking into a system. Crackers often like to describe themselves as hackers. Cracking does not usually involve some mysterious leap of hackerly brilliance but rather persistence and repetition of a handful of fairly well-known tricks that exploit common weaknesses in the security of target systems
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Thats the kind of definition I was looking for

Jimbob

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