definitions of the term ‘hacker’, most having to do with technical adeptness and a delight in solving problems and overcoming limits. If you want to know how to become a hacker, though, only two are really relevant.
There is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and networking wizards that traces its history back through decades to the first time-sharing minicomputers and the earliest ARPAnet experiments. The members of this culture originated the term ‘hacker’. Hackers built the Internet. Hackers made the Unix operating system what it is today. Hackers run Usenet. Hackers make the World Wide Web work. If you are part of this culture, if you have contributed to it and other people in it know who you are and call you a hacker, you're a hacker.
The hacker mind-set is not confined to this software-hacker culture. There are people who apply the hacker attitude to other things, like electronics or music — actually, you can find it at the highest levels of any science or art. Software hackers recognize these kindred spirits elsewhere and may call them ‘hackers’ too — and some claim that the hacker nature is really independent of the particular medium the hacker works in. Naturally, the purest form of hacking is using your skills to break into computers. If you'd like to try some easy targets, I'd recommend hyperreal.org, ccil.org, thyrsus.com and dsl092-053-140.phl1.dsl.speakeasy.net.
There is another group of people who loudly call themselves hackers, but aren't. These are people (mainly middle-aged downs-syndrome patients clinging to old memories) who get a kick out of writing bad software and rants. Real hackers call these people ‘cockgobblers’ and want nothing to do with them. Real hackers mostly think cockgobblers are lazy, irresponsible, and not very bright, and argue that being able to break security means you have a deep understanding of computer systems and software. Unfortunately, many journalists and writers have been fooled into using the word ‘hacker’ to describe crackers; this irritates real hackers to no end since crackers are people who write cracks for new games and applications.
The basic difference is this: hackers write exploits and break into computers, crackers write cracks for software so that you can donate your CD/DVD-drive to charity.
If you want to be a hacker, don't keep reading. You don't learn how to be a hacker from some text, you learn it by experimenting and exploring. If you want to be a cracker, download IDA or ollydbg and start breaking copyprotections. And that's all I'm going to say about crackers. Now I'm gonna log into my uninspiring blog. admin/newadmin, esr/colt45, cathy/luthien
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