This movie = $h1t


Why must the justice system and hollywood go hand in hand to try and make hackers look like criminals. If they put curiousity as a felony well lock us all up.

Saying that a human being cant be curious must mean that they never experienced love, or any human emotion.

They are just more robots in the system we call the government.

Sell ciggaretts to little kids, give jobs to illegal alliens, watch people being killed all over the world, but arrest, and put people in jail for life for accessing a vulnerable computer system for the sake of discovery.

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I am not a hacker... but fight the RIAA
www.suprnova.org

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Those malicious hackers you described are called "crackers".

A true hacker would not do anything outright malicious.

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You are 100% right realitymage. It too pisses me off when peple get the meanings mixed up, and give us hackers a bad name, yes that right I am a hacker - but not in the sense that most people think.

Here is the CORRECT descriptions of the Term's "hacker" and "cracker", perhaps some of you will learn to nt open your mouth unless you understand what the words mean:

cracker n. One who breaks security on a system. Coined ca. 1985 by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse of hacker (q.v., sense 8). An earlier attempt to establish `worm' in this sense around 1981-82 on Usenet was largely a failure.

Use of both these neologisms reflects a strong revulsion against the theft and vandalism perpetrated by cracking rings. While it is expected that any real hacker will have done some playful cracking and knows many of the basic techniques, anyone past larval stage is expected to have outgrown the desire to do so except for immediate, benign, practical reasons (for example, if it's necessary to get around some security in order to get some work done).

Thus, there is far less overlap between hackerdom and crackerdom than the mundane reader misled by sensationalistic journalism might expect. Crackers tend to gather in small, tight-knit, very secretive groups that have little overlap with the huge, open poly-culture this lexicon describes; though crackers often like to describe themselves as hackers, most true hackers consider them a separate and lower form of life.

Ethical considerations aside, hackers figure that anyone who can't imagine a more interesting way to play with their computers than breaking into someone else's has to be pretty losing. Some other reasons crackers are looked down on are discussed in the entries on cracking and phreaking. See also samurai, dark-side hacker, and hacker ethic. For a portrait of the typical teenage cracker, see warez d00dz.

hacker n. [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. 2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming. 3. A person capable of appreciating hack value. 4. A person who is good at programming quickly. 5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in `a Unix hacker'. (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.) 6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy hacker, for example. 7. One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations. 8. [deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence `password hacker', `network hacker'. The correct term for this sense is cracker.

The term `hacker' also tends to connote membership in the global community defined by the net (see the network and Internet address). For discussion of some of the basics of this culture, see the How To Become A Hacker FAQ. It also implies that the person described is seen to subscribe to some version of the hacker ethic (see hacker ethic).

It is better to be described as a hacker by others than to describe oneself that way. Hackers consider themselves something of an elite (a meritocracy based on ability), though one to which new members are gladly welcome. There is thus a certain ego satisfaction to be had in identifying yourself as a hacker (but if you claim to be one and are not, you'll quickly be labeled bogus). See also wannabee.

This term seems to have been first adopted as a badge in the 1960s by the hacker culture surrounding TMRC and the MIT AI Lab. We have a report that it was used in a sense close to this entry's by teenage radio hams and electronics tinkerers in the mid-1950s.

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But i guess im still stupid? *sigh* go back to your white collar, living by the rules pathetic lives.

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copy and paste into address bar: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/specials/hackers/qandas/goldstein.html

That might teach you a little bit about what hacking is.

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Being an immoral foo doesn't make a foo a bar, you tard. Morality is out of the scope of hacking, and anyone merely suggesting otherwise should STFU and go back to HDC. Oh, wait..

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any real hacker just uses the opensusebsd.exe

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You lost that war .
ship has sailed
hacker now means "bad guy",

or even "FPS game cheat"

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This movie equals money and a hit?
hmm...

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