About hackers and crackers and such...

Shadowman

Water Chip? Been There, Done That
Continuing the discussion here in a new thread... At this point I have to say I still agree with Xotor. You see Matux, you've been going out from the misconception that hackers are people who break into computers, but don't do it with harmful intent. Well guess what? That's not true.

The FIRST definition of a hacker is someone who breaks into a computer. Period. Now I'm talking about the time when as a hacker's code of ethics didn't even exist and before the hackers made their own distinction between hackers and crackers. The point is that it doesn't matter whether or not a hacker has harmful intent. Breaking into a computer is an illegal act and if you get caught you'd go to jail. Compare it with the crime of breaking and entering a house. Whether or not you steal anything is irrelevant, it still is an illegal act. Now it's nice to know that there are hackers who abide by their so-called hackers code, but when they get caught they still go to jail.
 
What's in a name ?.......

Well, a hacker or cracker or anything is just something you stick a definition to. As were all the "irrelevant" examples about gay or monster or anything. A word has "an sich" no meaning at all. Let's start off with the first word of this message (Well). Why do we write "well" and not "Xqprtnmpgfa" ? To make clear to someone else what you mean. And as I see this whole topic, MatuX means something (not entirely though) different with "Hacker" than Xotor. (I'll come back to this later)

>Continuing the discussion here in a
>new thread... At this point
>I have to say I
>still agree with Xotor. You
>see Matux, you've been going
>out from the misconception that
>hackers are people who break
>into computers, but don't do
>it with harmful intent. Well
>guess what? That's not true.
>
>
>The FIRST definition of a hacker
>is someone who breaks into
>a computer. Period. Now I'm
>talking about the time when
>as a hacker's code of
>ethics didn't even exist and
>before the hackers made their
>own distinction between hackers and
>crackers. The point is that
>it doesn't matter whether or
>not a hacker has harmful
>intent. Breaking into a computer
>is an illegal act and
>if you get caught you'd
>go to jail. Compare it
>with the crime of breaking
>and entering a house. Whether
>or not you steal anything
>is irrelevant, it still is
>an illegal act. Now it's
>nice to know that there
>are hackers who abide by
>their so-called hackers code, but
>when they get caught they
>still go to jail.
 
RE: To make it clearer,

It's as simply as this:

Hacker *meaned* what I say. (don't know if meaned is spelled correctly)
Now, the media changed the term because their own ignorance.
All the Hackers are fucked up.

Is that fair? I guess not. Then, why I'm gonna give the truth to the media when I'm a hacker and know what I am?
 
You are wrong

[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Apr-05-00 AT 11:38PM (GMT)[p]>It's as simply as this:
>
>Hacker *meaned* what I say. (don't
>know if meaned is spelled
>correctly)
>Now, the media changed the term
>because their own ignorance.
>All the Hackers are fucked up.
>
>
>Is that fair? I guess not.
>Then, why I'm gonna give
>the truth to the media
>when I'm a hacker and
>know what I am?

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Taken from: "The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language", Third Edition

hack·er1 (hkr)
n.

Computer Science.
1.a. One who is proficient at using or programming a computer; a computer buff.

b. One who illegally gains access to or enters another's electronic system to obtain secret information or steal money.


These were the FIRST definitions of a hacker. Now overtime the meaning of the term has changed, but especially to the hackers themselves who introduced the term crackers for their less ethical collegues. Still you have to realize that this first term is the one that's currently most used by the public, internet- and network security experts and the media. You can make your definition of hacker as good as you want, it doesn't matter. The bottom line is that someone who hacks is a criminal. People will allways associate hackers with computercrime.
 
RE: You are wrong

Yeah, by "common tradition" a hacker is a computer breaker.

But, it's a fact that the "oldest" hackers never agreed with the new meaning. And, I think that if the source don't want to change, it can't be stupidly forced.

Fallout is a great game, but, because a movie says that Fallout is a shit, we know that Fallout will never be a shit, because we know the original Fallout.

It's so difficult to understand?
 
Continuing with Xotor discussion...

>>Man... Common definition can be something,
>>slang is another thing.
>>In Spain coger is to "pick
>>up"
>>In Latin-america coger is to "fuck"
>>
>>
>>But the real meaning of coger
>>is to "pick up", and
>>the slang used in Latin-america
>>is "fuck".
>
>And your point is?


The original meaning of hacker was another one, now, because non-hacker people wanted, it changed. But the real meaning will always be the original one, first, because honor and ethics have a place in our planet.


>>Well, with hackers is the same.
>>I believe that I'm a
>>hacker, but, because the humanity
>>(NON-HACKER HUMANITY) wanted to change
>>the term, I'm not a
>>hacker anymore.
>>
>>Is that fair?
>
>It doesn't matter if it is fair. Is it fair that
>a very powerful and once-good symbol like the
>swastika was corrupted by the Nazis? No, of
>course not, but times change.
>
It doesn't matter to you because you aren't interested.
For you to know, that's the first cause why I'm telling you that "hacker" is not what everyone says.
But, if you don't care if that is fair or not, I can't discuss this matter with you, because you are gaining a 50% of ignorance by not having interest in the topic.

And about the swastika. That's what people would have to stop. "Big bosses" trying to change terms because they like. But, remember, Hitler reach the power because Germany was in a stage with an increased economic poverty and the Germans moral was very very low. And all that made the shit easy.


>>If the media says your mother
>>is a fucking bitch you
>>are gonna defend it because
>>you know that isn't true.
>
>We are describing definitions of words, not if
>the media suddenly decides to insult someone.

No no, the topic evoluted to this point:

1. You defined the term hacker
2. I defined another meaning
3. You say that it's archaic and that I'm a stupid.
4. Now I'm talking about the mistake you are (and lots of people are) having because a wrong meaning of a concept. Why it's not okay to label a hacker as a computer breaker.


>>Well, here the same...
>>
>>But well..... Nobody is interested...
>>And what can I do against
>>that? I only have the
>>knowledge, if you were a
>>(real) hacker, your opinion would
>>be similiar to mine.
>
>No, I'd probably just figure there are two
>meanings of the word. Words have different
>meanings under different contexts. Yeah, you're
>a code hacker when you're coding Linux apps, but
>when you're breaking into a system, you're a
>hacker (computer breaker).

Original hackers does not accept the new term.

For being an original hacker you have to do lots (I mean LOTS) of mental things, and a "new hacker" only has to break a stupid computer system security and start causing chaos...
(Be aware that the code of conduct of the old hackers were to never let be seduced by the information and start to copy/move/delete/etc. it)

>>Understand that, the way I am,
>>I can't accept everything that
>>is imposed.
>>Thanks to nature, I have the
>>capacity to think in my
>>own, and not because someone
>>says that.
>
>And as unique and special as you think you are,
>you are STILL affected and shaped by society. No
>man is an island.

Yes, there is an indirect affectation. But the society has rules, and these rules have been IMPOSED (yes, they have been inevitably imposed) by the "bosses" on the world.

I'm not gonna let that these people fill my brain with shit that they think it's correct and I don't.

>>Hackers were less than 0.1% of
>>the world poblation, how they
>>can defend the degradation of
>>the word? It's impossible.
>
>You can fight whatever imaginary battles you
>want. The fact still remains: "Hacker" has two
>different definitions.

Imaginary? Could you stop acting with ignorance?
Do you know WHY the Enforce team entered to the Pentagon in 1998?
Glamour? No, it was in the name of the real hackers.
Thanks to original hackers the information on the internet was not censured. Never heard about the "Communications Decency Act"?
I could tell you lots and lots of "imaginary fights" that you ignore, not because you're stupid, but because you aren't interested in this topic. But, don't talk if you don't know a matter at its 100%.

>>Yes yes, the fact was that
>>it was impossible to reach
>>the moon by 99.999999999999% of
>>the humanity.
>>You are a very kind of
>>common human, you accept everything,
>>but these things that affects
>>your personal (or maybe your
>>friends) life, you don't care
>>what the humanity thinks about.
>
>And you're trying to put across what point?
>
If you were an original hacker you would be fighting "my imaginary" battle.
Do you think that you have changed the meaning? Even helped the mean to change? No no... You have adopted an imposition made by the media.


>>>That is a crazy illusion you are holding. Wake
>>>up and see the real world for what it IS.
>>
>>And what is the real world?
>>The world that is made
>>by "human gods" (aka media,
>>government, microsoft, etc.) or the
>>world that tries to don't
>>allow them to change us?
>
>The real world is society. Society consists of
>our environment and everything created by
>mankind including the people themselves.
>
The fact is that citizens aren't completly free. Citizens are controlled by consume. The big bosses of the big organization do whatever they want with the citizens, and you can't tell me that isn't true.
Did you know that there is a very consistent rumour that Intel has already build 1Ghz chips? That violate the rights of techonolgy progress for the mankind. But, who cares? I have money... I can do whatever I want.

>And why does that matter? It does not matter
>whether "hacker" is a person, and ethic, or a
>concept, it is still a WORD, and a word can have
>MANY meanings
>
And concept-words can't have contradictory meanings.
See, in real life, nothing is black or white. You must have an open mind to see what's good or bad, you must be in each side to know what it feels, you must gain experience with direct contact with real life to know what's all about. You must live. Go to streets, at night, at day, walk, watch, think, evaluate, talk, be sociable, nice, and then, try to be a moron with a person you don't know. Feel, gain knowledge, be silent, hear the people who knows, and then evaluate your point of view, your perspective. Every opinion will be different, no one thinks the same at 100%, maybe 98%, maybe 99.9999999%, but never at 100%.
We are humans, we can do that.
Believe in God, and then, don't believe in it, live being a Christian and then a Protestant, then make your choices, or, if you don't want to do that, seek knowledge with the people who knows. Like me, I chose to be Agnostic, I don't believe in God as I believe in it. I'm in a neutral position, to watch and evaluate the point of views. I accept the parapsychology, but I don't agree or disagree with it. Why? Because I don't know. I can't believe in God if I never feel him, or if I found that living without him was better than living with him (that was what happened to me).

>"Hacker" is also considered slang. It was coined
>by computer guys in the 1960s to describe
>themselves. "Hacker" was considered a person who
>cut up wood before that time. It is only a so-
>called "globalized" term since the information
>era starting in the early eighties.
>
No, the term "hacker" was used by the first time when the telephone company Bell was first funded in U.S.A. in 1868.
What you say was in 1961 when the M.I.T. bought a PDP-1 (don't know exactly if it was) computer. Inside the university people started to build programs to work in that environment. They called "hacks" to the programming short cuts that helped the PDP to do his tasks faster.

We can say that the first real hacker was Ken Thompson when in 1969 invented the UNIX OS.

>Actually it wasn't. It meant "happy" long before
>it was connotated with homosexuality. I'm sure
>people didn't like "gay" changed into such a
>negative connotation but THEY GOT OVER IT.

Excuse my ignorance, I never knew that.

>"Something that existed before computers were
>created" does not make sense. "Hacker" in your
>terms, was created during the computer era
>
But when the mean was consolidated as a solid meaning, it comprehend anyone who made a good to the mankind.
Like discovering new technolgies, or make a good program.

>No, a newspaper and a web-site doesn't change
>the definition of a word, but SOCIETY CAN, and
>society HAS changed the meaning of "hacker." No
>matter what you may believe, society IS a
>defining part of your life.

Your believes are wrong, the media imposed the new meaning, and the citizens adopted it like morons.
Now, hacker has a new meaning that never was approved by the original hackers.

>Oh, and now you're placing "hackers" in a tier
>of their own now? I CAN think as a real hacker,
>and quite frankly I have BETTER things to do
>than try to defend a definition that is still
>true under certain contexts.
>
>Try claiming that "gay" only means "happy."

I'm just continuing this topic because you don't really know about this topic so well and still discussing me.
It's funny, you know?

>"Computer-literate" pretty much says it all huh?
>People who know how to use computer.
>
And what is to know how to use computers? A programmer or a moron with Windows 95?
If both... Well, then "Computer-literate" has nothing to do with this topic. We are talking about original hackers, not about morons that can't execute a file in a CD because it didn't "autorun".

>Marketting strategy? This is just sad. You're
>creating your own illusions. What kind
>of "market" strategy could anyone achieve by
>labling computer breakers as "hackers?"

No one knew of crackers, then, they use hackers because it was best known (and the word was nicer). You don't believe me? Well... Go to the pages I show you in the other topics. Read the book I post, and get informed (if you're interested, of course)
Then, to help that "market strategy", the movie Hackers was created.
And the media started to use that term and the rest is history.

See, you're sad not because you think that I'm wrong, but, because you don't understand what I'm talking about, and that's why you try to insult me (in a nice way).

>I personally don't see it as a good use of my
>time. I don't care about stuff that really
>doesn't matter. You're blowing this whole thing
>out of preportion
>
Then, don't discuss with a guy who knows about a topic that you even are interested in.

>If I were in front of an omnipotent being that
>has all the power of the universe and he told me
>to kiss boys, I probably would.
>
Then, if I don't obey him, technically I'm being able to don't do what a "being that has all the power of the universe" says me to do.
And that means that he doesn't has all the power of the universe...

>Oh, and so you're claiming an evolved human is
>a "hacker?" No, I'm saying that we've evolved
>past the point of believing that words are set
>in stone and are not influenced by society.
>
>I really don't know where you got that last rant

Before answer, read what you have posted, read what I'm posted and then write what you think it's okay.

No, an evolved human is not a "hacker", but the people that are you claming to be evolved aren't hackers, then, what you mean is that hackers aren't humans because they don't evolve with the rest of the "society".

Society society society... When you finish the high school you're gonna understand what is the society, and how fucked up is the world you are living in. How big organization control us, and the ones who can't control are claimed as enemies. A recommendation, talk to sociologists and philosophers. These guys knows everything about life.

And you don't know about the last "rant" because you didn't understood what I posted.

>Again, you're creating another illusion. As cool
>as you think you are by "rejecting society" you
>are only being influenced by another part of it.

Oh my god... Stop talking as a unity. The fucking life is completly divided, life is completly unfair, humans are completly divided, talking about a society as a totality is completly absurd.

>More illusions. Has society done you wrong?
Go and eat in McDonalds, buy a Ferrari, bought clothes from Pierre Cardin and Nike shoes. Then, find out that the presidents of these companies is just one guy.
That's a fact, did you read "The Third Wave"?

>>How old are you?
>>What are your dreams? You have?
>>
>>Do you like to control? Do
>>you like to be controlled?
>>
>>Do you think only by yourself,
>>or you care what other
>>peoples believes?
>>Do you believe in parapsychology?
>>Do you believe in God? In
>>Jesus?
>
>And this has something to do with the topic in >what way...?
>
In the way that you completly ignore the real life, and you claim as ignorants as the people who knows but you can't understand them.

>>What is to be intelligent?
>
>To be useful.
>
A hacker was useful, todays hackers aren't useful, ooh, yes!! How do you want original hackers to accept that?

>>Do you think what you speak,
>>or do you speak what
>>you think?
>
>Try to stick to the topic.
>
To avoid is to don't allow knowledge to fill your mind, and that's called to be an ignorant.

Bye bye!

PS: I'm really tired of talking about this, I would like to finish this saying that you have a concept in mind and I have another one and that is.
I don't want to be your enemy, I want to be friends, we just have differents points of views and all of them are corrects.

"There're little humans that are capable to express with equality, opinions that differs from prejudices of his environment"
- Albert Einstein

I hope it's well traduced, but, Albert seems to think like I am ;-)
 
Hack!ng any form of program is illegal, and so the modding and hacking board is illegal, so this site hosts illegal stuff on it. Just thought I'd mention it.

Oh, and if the police caught me modding (same as hack!ng just a nicer term) and game I own (which I do do frequently) then I can be put in jail.

Two companies which support hacking are :

Winamp, they even say that when people created their own winamp skins, this was illegal. But they decided it was cool.

Id supports hack!ng (Quake skins etc...) too.


I really think that there should be a line drawn between *real* hack!ng (breaking and entering sites) and game hack!ng (hey, you own the software so you should be able to do as you wish with it, apart from distributing copies of it ;)

So what do you guys have to say to that?

Note: I'm sorry that I had to use '!' in place of 'i', but my ISP was refusing to let me post this message otherwise. I need PacBell DSL NOW!
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Read my post in the thread below:

It gives a bit of light on the subject. And where there is a DEFINITE grey area between the two.
 
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The word hack has become a real pain in the ass for a lot of people (specially for the "original" hackers).

Did you know that the ethic of the hacker was to know martial arts or knowing the arts of the Zen?

How the word was degenerated is terrible.

Hey Smack, if you write Fück with a " in the U 'ü' or Shït, what happens?

----Something I forgot (that's why the last edited ;-))

IF a copyright allows you or do not mention it, it's not illegal to do any mod you want and distribute it.
AND, when you buy a game, you can do ANYTHING you want with it but (if the copyrights don't allow you) you can't redistribute it in anyform.

What this board contains is not illegal. They are just ideas without objective proof of them. (Don't forget that we could just lie! ;-))
 
>Hey Smack, if you write Fück
>with a " in the
>U 'ü' or Shït, what
>happens?

I can read it, see.

>----Something I forgot (that's why the
>last edited ;-))

Still can't read that.

>IF a copyright allows you or
>do not mention it, it's
>not illegal to do any
>mod you want and distribute
>it.
>AND, when you buy a game,
>you can do ANYTHING you
>want with it but (if
>the copyrights don't allow you)
>you can't redistribute it in
>anyform.


>What this board contains is not
>illegal. They are just ideas
>without objective proof of them.
>(Don't forget that we could
>just lie! ;-))

Not only the board, but the Duke Nukem mod.

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RE: You are wrong

[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Apr-06-00 AT 02:29PM (GMT)[p]
>Yeah, by "common tradition" a hacker
>is a computer breaker.

>But, it's a fact that the
>"oldest" hackers never agreed with
>the new meaning. And, I
>think that if the source
>don't want to change, it
>can't be stupidly forced.

You can't seem to get it through your skull that YOUR definition of hacker is the NEW definition. The ORIGINAL meaning is the one I quoted from the dictionary. It's great that you know so much about the history of hackers, but you should realize that they're bending the truth. The original old hackers like to think that THEY invented the term "hackers" which they didn't. They also like to portray theirselves as security cowbows, but all they're just common criminals. Ok, maybe they don't use other people's tools they and programme their own software to bypass security systems, but that doesn't change the fact that they are BREAKING AND ENTERING. Hacker, cracker whatever...

>Fallout is a great game, but,
>because a movie says that
>Fallout is a shit, we
>know that Fallout will never
>be a shit, because we
>know the original Fallout.

Well, this is a bad analogy, but I catch your drift. And it also proves my point once again :-)

>It's so difficult to understand?

I understand you perfectly, but it's you who doesn't seem to understand me. I know that there are different meanings issued to the word hacker, but the most used meaning is and will always be accepted by the public as the true meaning. No matter what you or the other so-called "real" hackers say. For me the word hacker is a synonym of a computercriminal.

PS. You might think that I have something against hackers (your definition), but I don't. It's illegal to gain entrance to foreign systems without the consent of the administrator or owner of the system, but I can see that revealing loopholes so that they can get better security isn't wrong. That doesn't change the fact that it's still illegal.
 
RE: You are wrong

Let's see what can I do... ;-)

I'm gonna put the example of the hacker Kevin Mitnick.
He was accused of stealing 20.000 credit cards numbers.
What was the matter? He entered illegaly to a computer system and get the numbers. The fact is that he never used them. So, the difference that the hackers proclaim here is. A cracker would used them. He didn't do that.
So, the ignorant community now uses a on common term, "Hacker".
And now there is an irrelevant campaing against hacker community. But, the people who build the security system for Yahoo was a hacker! That's what is not understood.

Everybody likes to call hacker to the people who breaks in computer systems and start making chaos, without knowing what the real meaning is. If that isn't ignorance, what is?

The fact is that the word hacker is much more complex than a "computercriminal" and that's what it's not okay.

I'm not trying to say that a Hacker is another completly different thing, but I'm trying to tell you that the hacker environment is toooooo much much complex beyond all the possibly discussion on the matter.
That's what Xotor doesn't understand, so, he prefer to use the simple term without knowing what it really means.

A hacker builds, a cracker destroy. Simply as that.
 
modding games and distribute them is not illegal, posting techinal secrets about a game without acknowledging of the publisher or the producer is illegal.

That's what happened with 'acm2wav'.
 
Knowledge only can be found in good books.

Here, read these 3 books:

The New Hacker's Dictionary. Eric S.Raymond. MIT Press, 1991, ISBN 0-262-18145-2

Hackers. Steven Levy. No more info, sorry :-{

The Third Wave. I'm gonna bring you all the info about this excellent book.
 
I feel like I'm talking to a wall here

You keep dragging in new irrelevant stuff into the conversation. I know exactly what you're talking about, but I have a different point of view. You keep faling to see mine, so I better discontinue this discussion.
 
RE: I feel like I'm talking to a wall here

I understand your point of view.

It's okay, it's illegal, but I don't care if it's illegal, I care about "society" ignorance and stupidity.
Assault has 3 years penalty
Kevin was originally sentenced to 200 YEARS (yes two hundred) because he entered by curiosity to a computer system.

Isn't that stupidity?

That's all. If you understand that, ok, sorry if I couldn't figure it out.

:-)
 
Not even the Vatican is as holey...

>>>Man... Common definition can be something,
>>>slang is another thing.
>>>In Spain coger is to "pick
>>>up"
>>>In Latin-america coger is to "fuck"
>>>
>>>
>>>But the real meaning of coger
>>>is to "pick up", and
>>>the slang used in Latin-america
>>>is "fuck".
>>
>>And your point is?
>
>
>The original meaning of hacker was
>another one, now, because non-hacker
>people wanted, it changed. But
>the real meaning will always
>be the original one, first,
>because honor and ethics have
>a place in our planet.

I don't know where you get this half-brained idea that the first meaning of a word is its one and true meaning? Ever take a look in a DICTIONARY? Ever see the word "archaic" besides some of the definintions? It means the definition is OLD and rarely used anymore.

The oldest meaning of the word "hacker" is a person who hacks up words. Does that make it the first definition? Yes. Does it make it the one and only CORRECT definition? No.

"Hacker" is an English-origin word and the English language is the language with THE MOST homonyms and synonyms of ANY language on the planet. With that in mind, how can you refute that "hacker" has more than one meaning? You can't, end of discussion.

>>>Well, with hackers is the same.
>>>I believe that I'm a
>>>hacker, but, because the humanity
>>>(NON-HACKER HUMANITY) wanted to change
>>>the term, I'm not a
>>>hacker anymore.
>>>
>>>Is that fair?
>>
>>It doesn't matter if it is fair. Is it fair that
>>a very powerful and once-good symbol like the
>>swastika was corrupted by the Nazis? No, of
>>course not, but times change.
>>
>It doesn't matter to you because
>you aren't interested.
>For you to know, that's the
>first cause why I'm telling
>you that "hacker" is not
>what everyone says.
>But, if you don't care if
>that is fair or not,
>I can't discuss this matter
>with you, because you are
>gaining a 50% of ignorance
>by not having interest in
>the topic.

Great, now we have ignorance ratings. Let me clarify something for you:

#1, I am arguing the idea of yours that the meaning of "hacker" as a person who works with code, is the correct meaning of "hacker." Yeah, I care, if that's the word, about that.

#2, What I DON'T care about, is the so-called "struggle" that self-named "real" hackers CLAIM to be fighting in order to preserve a definition of the word "hacker" to mean a person who "hacks" code. I don't care about the struggle. You/they can fight this war for whatever reason, logical or not, and I really don't care because it is POINTLESS.

>And about the swastika. That's what
>people would have to stop.
>"Big bosses" trying to change
>terms because they like. But,
>remember, Hitler reach the power
>because Germany was in a
>stage with an increased economic
>poverty and the Germans moral
>was very very low. And
>all that made the shit
>easy.

Oh wonderful, now we have "big bosses" running the word like the crime bosses of New Reno. And tell me, where is your proof? Does ANYBODY have anything to gain by sending out "propaganda" to discredit "real" hackers?

You're creating your own separate reality. Get down to Earth and back up your claims will you?

>>>If the media says your mother
>>>is a fucking bitch you
>>>are gonna defend it because
>>>you know that isn't true.
>>
>>We are describing definitions of words, not if
>>the media suddenly decides to insult someone.
>
>No no, the topic evoluted to
>this point:
>
>1. You defined the term hacker
>
>2. I defined another meaning
>3. You say that it's archaic
>and that I'm a stupid.
>
>4. Now I'm talking about the
>mistake you are (and lots
>of people are) having because
>a wrong meaning of a
>concept. Why it's not okay
>to label a hacker as
>a computer breaker.

And I'm arguing that you are creating your own reality and you need to WAKE UP and realize that you are fighting against IRREFUTABLE proof.

It IS okay to call a hacker a person who breaks into computers. The people who DO break into computers call themselves hackers. How do you explain that? Are they ignorant or have they just realized (or known all along as most do) that they are speaking of "hacker" in a certain CONTEXT?

That is where you are going wrong. Yes, your meaning is correct for people WHO ARE ACTUALLY HACKING CODE. As for people who break into computers THEY ARE ALSO "HACKERS."

If we went by only one definition for each word our dictionary would be one FOURTH its current size.

>>>Well, here the same...
>>>
>>>But well..... Nobody is interested...
>>>And what can I do against
>>>that? I only have the
>>>knowledge, if you were a
>>>(real) hacker, your opinion would
>>>be similiar to mine.
>>
>>No, I'd probably just figure there are two
>>meanings of the word. Words have different
>>meanings under different contexts. Yeah, you're
>>a code hacker when you're coding Linux apps, but
>>when you're breaking into a system, you're a
>>hacker (computer breaker).
>
>Original hackers does not accept the
>new term.

And why should anyone CARE if self-named "original hackers" say that they don't accept the current term? I mean really, it's like saying you're boycotting a certain product and you send the company a letter. Do they REALLY care? Does ANYONE? Unless you're actually important to the company (or in this case, the computer industry) YOU DON'T MATTER.

The fact is, there are more IMPORTANT PEOPLE, including those "original hackers," who acknowledge and use the term "hacker" as a person who breaks into a computer system. They will use YOUR definition, original definition or not, in the CONTEXT that the definition REQUIRES.

>For being an original hacker you
>have to do lots (I
>mean LOTS) of mental things,
>and a "new hacker" only
>has to break a stupid
>computer system security and start
>causing chaos...
>(Be aware that the code of
>conduct of the old hackers
>were to never let be
>seduced by the information and
>start to copy/move/delete/etc. it)

Whether or not the "original" hacker is doing any harm, the fact remains: they are still breaking into a system. New or old, as cutesy as hackers think they are by following the "hacker's ethic" they are STILL breaking into a system. That is an undeniable FACT.

>>>Understand that, the way I am,
>>>I can't accept everything that
>>>is imposed.
>>>Thanks to nature, I have the
>>>capacity to think in my
>>>own, and not because someone
>>>says that.
>>
>>And as unique and special as you think you are,
>>you are STILL affected and shaped by society. No
>>man is an island.
>
>Yes, there is an indirect affectation.
>But the society has rules,
>and these rules have been
>IMPOSED (yes, they have been
>inevitably imposed) by the "bosses"
>on the world.

Care to name any of them? Really, I'd like to know who these "bosses" are.

>I'm not gonna let that these
>people fill my brain with
>shit that they think it's
>correct and I don't.

You're just eating up the propaganda created by paranoid people. It is just as bad as eating up propaganda created by a government.

Look at the world around you, I assume you are in the United States, look at it. We have more freedoms than ANY nation on Earth. Sure, Europe has some pretty lenient nudity laws, big deal. What nation has an organization, the NAACP which, despite its connotation with pro-minority issues, supports Ku Klux Klan marches out of the idea that no limits be set on the freedom of speech? What nation crys "foul" on issues like the right to carry an AK-47 Assault Rifle into a church? What government allows itself to be sued?

And here you are, complaining that media has supposedly changed the word of "hacker" when it was really the hackers themselves? Get over it.

>>>Hackers were less than 0.1% of
>>>the world poblation, how they
>>>can defend the degradation of
>>>the word? It's impossible.
>>
>>You can fight whatever imaginary battles you
>>want. The fact still remains: "Hacker" has two
>>different definitions.
>
>Imaginary? Could you stop acting with
>ignorance?
>Do you know WHY the Enforce
>team entered to the Pentagon
>in 1998?
>Glamour? No, it was in the
>name of the real hackers.

And these "real" hackers should be dealt with. Do you actually think hackers in any shape or form, aside from people who work with code, are GOOD? Should society even have to DEAL with people breaking into systems. Good or bad, ethical or not, breaking into a computer system is AN ILLEGAL ACT, and has NO place within society.

Do you think that if we didn't have these people that we wouldn't have to waste time and resources to combat them? Yeah, there are "good hackers," the ones who break into systems and leave a nice note showing the weaknesses, but if we didn't have hackers, malicious or not, roaming the internet skies, would we need "good hackers"?

>Thanks to original hackers the information
>on the internet was not
>censured. Never heard about the
>"Communications Decency Act"?

"Censored"

"Original hackers" never had a thing to do with the CDA. The CDA was overthrown because it violated the First Amendment: Freedom of Speech. It was not because some "hackers" made a big stink over the idea, it was because it was unconstitutional. You ARE affected by society, and THAT was a perfect display of society's part in shaping the internet.

But what does that give way to? Yeah, the idea was to prevent an avalanche of censorship on many topics but really it was to prevent children from seeing porn. Is porn constitutional? Some people argue that if porn was restricted soon images of the human anatomy (i.e. health sites) would be restricted. That was a good point, but now people are arguing that SPAM ought to not be regulated because it falls under "freedom of speech."

How about a "Freedom to Listen" act huh?

>I could tell you lots and
>lots of "imaginary fights" that
>you ignore, not because you're
>stupid, but because you aren't
>interested in this topic. But,
>don't talk if you don't
>know a matter at its
>100%.

I don't care about your fight against society. If you don't like it, become a hermit. I for one appreciate what HAS been done for me. Here's a newsflash: Society is NOT out to get you.

I am not interested in imaginary battles. They ARE imaginary.

>>>Yes yes, the fact was that
>>>it was impossible to reach
>>>the moon by 99.999999999999% of
>>>the humanity.
>>>You are a very kind of
>>>common human, you accept everything,
>>>but these things that affects
>>>your personal (or maybe your
>>>friends) life, you don't care
>>>what the humanity thinks about.
>>
>>And you're trying to put across what point?
>>
>If you were an original hacker
>you would be fighting "my
>imaginary" battle.
>Do you think that you have
>changed the meaning? Even helped
>the mean to change? No
>no... You have adopted an
>imposition made by the media.

Media did not change the meaning of "hacker." Hackers did. Your definition of "hacker" may be coherent in some contexts, and mine (most of society's) is coherent in others. Meanings of a word are not copyrighted no matter what you may think.

Do you think that the GNU would even acknowledge the computer-breaker meaning of "hacker" if they didn't believe it existed? No they wouldn't. The GNU was FOUNDED by hackers who fit your definition. They have accepted the new meaning under its context.

The whole problem is that you don't place the word in its proper CONTEXT. That's what makes the English language the HARDEST language in the WORLD to learn. Chinese is simplistic, so is French, so is Latin. English has SOOO many words that mean more than one thing. Why can't "hacker?"

>>>>That is a crazy illusion you are holding. Wake
>>>>up and see the real world for what it IS.
>>>
>>>And what is the real world?
>>>The world that is made
>>>by "human gods" (aka media,
>>>government, microsoft, etc.) or the
>>>world that tries to don't
>>>allow them to change us?
>>
>>The real world is society. Society consists of
>>our environment and everything created by
>>mankind including the people themselves.
>>
>The fact is that citizens aren't
>completly free. Citizens are controlled
>by consume. The big bosses
>of the big organization do
>whatever they want with the
>citizens, and you can't tell
>me that isn't true.

Again, don't make claims, back them up. You describe "big bosses." Who are they?

>Did you know that there is
>a very consistent rumour that
>Intel has already build 1Ghz
>chips? That violate the rights
>of techonolgy progress for the
>mankind. But, who cares? I
>have money... I can do
>whatever I want.

Intel AND American Micro Devices (AMD) have ALREADY created a 1 ghz processor (I have the PC Magazine issue to prove it). AMD even has a 1.2ghz prototype, so what is your point? How does this violate tech progress? If anything it forwards it. Your point is to moot.

Are they the "big bosses" you speak of? Wait, now who actually BUYS those products? The consumer. Are we FORCED to buy them? Nope. If you don't want to forward their business, don't buy from them. Sheesh.

>>And why does that matter? It does not matter
>>whether "hacker" is a person, and ethic, or a
>>concept, it is still a WORD, and a word can have
>>MANY meanings
>>
>And concept-words can't have contradictory meanings.

It most definitely can. It is called a paradox.

Take for example a perfect sphere on a surface. It rolls on a perfect plane. Now a perfect circle touches a plane at only one point. A point however has no tangible area, it only a location. Does the circle have friction on that surface? It DOES touch the surface, but it touches with no area.

It IS touching, so it MUST have friction, but it has an infinitely small amount of friction which is technically zero.

It is a paradox.

"Hacker" is not even a concept however. It is a word, it is jargon, computer jargon. Words may have multiple meanings. Words may have INFINITE meanings. It all depends on where and when you use the word.

Take the word "glare":

Would you use the definition "to stare harshly or angrily" in a sentence like this:

"The glare of the light on the television made it impossible to see the show."

No you wouldn't.

Your point is to moot.

>See, in real life, nothing is
>black or white.

Exactly, now why are you arguing with me? If you realize this, why do you claim that there is only one "real" definition of hacker?

That concept is called "contradiction."

> You must
>have an open mind to
>see what's good or bad,
>you must be in each
>side to know what it
>feels, you must gain experience
>with direct contact with real
>life to know what's all
>about.

Yes, of course, now apply that to your contradiction.

> You must live. Go
>to streets, at night, at
>day, walk, watch, think, evaluate,
>talk, be sociable, nice, and
>then, try to be a
>moron with a person you
>don't know. Feel, gain knowledge,
>be silent, hear the people
>who knows, and then evaluate
>your point of view, your
>perspective.

Why are you making this non-sequitorial speech?

> Every opinion will be
>different, no one thinks the
>same at 100%, maybe 98%,
>maybe 99.9999999%, but never at
>100%.

*Cough* Isn't that what I've been PROVING all along?

>We are humans, we can do
>that.
>Believe in God, and then, don't
>believe in it, live being
>a Christian and then a
>Protestant, then make your choices,
>or, if you don't want
>to do that, seek knowledge
>with the people who knows.
>Like me, I chose to
>be Agnostic, I don't believe
>in God as I believe
>in it. I'm in a
>neutral position, to watch and
>evaluate the point of views.
>I accept the parapsychology, but
>I don't agree or disagree
>with it. Why? Because I
>don't know. I can't believe
>in God if I never
>feel him, or if I
>found that living without him
>was better than living with
>him (that was what happened
>to me).

And your, or anyone's religion relates to the topic how?

>>"Hacker" is also considered slang. It was coined
>>by computer guys in the 1960s to describe
>>themselves. "Hacker" was considered a person who
>>cut up wood before that time. It is only a so-
>>called "globalized" term since the information
>>era starting in the early eighties.
>>
>No, the term "hacker" was used
>by the first time when
>the telephone company Bell was
>first funded in U.S.A. in
>1868.

This has no relation to computers. Moot point.

>What you say was in 1961
>when the M.I.T. bought a
>PDP-1 (don't know exactly if
>it was) computer. Inside the
>university people started to build
>programs to work in that
>environment. They called "hacks" to
>the programming short cuts that
>helped the PDP to do
>his tasks faster.

Hence 1960s, when computers were really first introduced.

>We can say that the first
>real hacker was Ken Thompson
>when in 1969 invented the
>UNIX OS.

Again, 1960s, am I incorrect?

>>Actually it wasn't. It meant "happy" long before
>>it was connotated with homosexuality. I'm sure
>>people didn't like "gay" changed into such a
>>negative connotation but THEY GOT OVER IT.
>
>Excuse my ignorance, I never knew
>that.

And it proves my point.

>>"Something that existed before computers were
>>created" does not make sense. "Hacker" in your
>>terms, was created during the computer era
>>
>But when the mean was consolidated
>as a solid meaning, it
>comprehend anyone who made a
>good to the mankind.
>Like discovering new technolgies, or make
>a good program.

You mean "connotated"? No I don't think it was connotated with anyone who "made a good to mankind," it was connotated to people who worked with computers, hacked code, etc. Later it was used by hackers to describe those of them who would take turns trying to bust into each other's systems, later it came to mean any person who busted into systems. Busting into systems without permission is illegal, PERIOD. This meaning was created by the hackers THEMSELVES.

>>No, a newspaper and a web-site doesn't change
>>the definition of a word, but SOCIETY CAN, and
>>society HAS changed the meaning of "hacker." No
>>matter what you may believe, society IS a
>>defining part of your life.
>
>Your believes are wrong, the media
>imposed the new meaning, and
>the citizens adopted it like
>morons.

Media, you describe it like it were a person. "Hacker"/computer breaker's meaning was created by the hackers themselves. Are they morons? Was the self-named hacker Kevin Mitcick, a moron? He busted into NORAD. He was a hacker.

>Now, hacker has a new meaning
>that never was approved by
>the original hackers.

Oh wait, now we need approval from "original" hackers?! C'mon, quit living in a dream. You speak of "original hackers" as if they actually had/have any clout.

The fact is that most "original hackers" acknowledge the new contexted meaning "hacker" and use the old meaning of "hacker" in its own context. CONTEXT. Get the meaning?

>>Oh, and now you're placing "hackers" in a tier
>>of their own now? I CAN think as a real hacker,
>>and quite frankly I have BETTER things to do
>>than try to defend a definition that is still
>>true under certain contexts.
>>
>>Try claiming that "gay" only means "happy."
>
>I'm just continuing this topic because
>you don't really know about
>this topic so well and
>still discussing me.
>It's funny, you know?

From what I've discussed you don't seem to know ANYTHING, hell your spelling doesn't show much either (okay, that was a low blow, but hey, it does show something). What's funny is the people, like you, who try to argue against IRREFUTABLE FACT. It's like arguing with a FOOL.

It's funny, you know?

>>"Computer-literate" pretty much says it all huh?
>>People who know how to use computer.
>>
>And what is to know how
>to use computers? A programmer
>or a moron with Windows
>95?

Would a "moron" who's using Windows 95 be considered literate? Would a person who can only read a few words be considered literate? How about a "moron" who can only rattle off a few words in Spanish, is he fluent? Catch the meaning?

>If both... Well, then "Computer-literate" has
>nothing to do with this
>topic. We are talking about
>original hackers, not about morons
>that can't execute a file
>in a CD because it
>didn't "autorun".

That isn't "literate," again, another moot point.

>>Marketting strategy? This is just sad. You're
>>creating your own illusions. What kind
>>of "market" strategy could anyone achieve by
>>labling computer breakers as "hackers?"
>
>No one knew of crackers, then,
>they use hackers because it
>was best known (and the
>word was nicer).

Don't know the meaning of "cracker"? Of course they know the meaning of cracker. They don't use the term "cracker" because they AREN'T crackers, they are HACKERS. Crackers bust programs, hackers bust systems. There's a big difference.

> You don't
>believe me? Well... Go to
>the pages I show you
>in the other topics. Read
>the book I post, and
>get informed (if you're interested,
>of course)

Go to www.attrition.org/ where you can see what REAL hackers do. Look at the database of thousands of sites that hackers most "ethical," have busted into. They are hackers. Look at the docs, look at the information.

Take a look at neworder.box.sk/ Look at the utilities for "security" reasons.

Ever read Fravia's security docs? He was a hacker. He had one of the best hacking sites around.

>Then, to help that "market strategy",
>the movie Hackers was created.

Oh, so the whole change of the word was to create that movie huh? Get real. They based the movie off of that meaning of "hacker" that was created BEFORE that time.

No wait, let me think, in Jurasic Park, that little girl (forgot her name) chose to name herself a "hacker" (your definition), I guess we can add that to the tally sheet right?

>And the media started to use
>that term and the rest
>is history.

Now wait, let me get this straight, you believe that the whole change of the word "hacker" originated with the movie "Hackers" and THEN the media started to propagate that word around? What kind of dream land is your brain in?

>See, you're sad not because you
>think that I'm wrong, but,
>because you don't understand what
>I'm talking about, and that's
>why you try to insult
>me (in a nice way).

*I* don't understand. I doubt if you even program.

I "insult" you because your arguments are about as thought out as people who want FOOL (Fallout Online), and now you're claiming you "know better"?

Media, "big bosses," the movie "Hackers," is that your only "proof" (and I use that word loosely)?

I'll let others decide. Wait, how many people are agreeing with you here? Hmm, let me count the hands.. no, MatuX, you don't count for your own vote.. NOBODY.

>>I personally don't see it as a good use of my
>>time. I don't care about stuff that really
>>doesn't matter. You're blowing this whole thing
>>out of preportion
>>
>Then, don't discuss with a guy
>who knows about a topic
>that you even are interested
>in.

Again, I don't care about your rebel-without-a-cause battles. What I'm discussing is your unsupported claim that "hacker" has different meanings under different contexts.

>>If I were in front of an omnipotent being that
>>has all the power of the universe and he told me
>>to kiss boys, I probably would.
>>
>Then, if I don't obey him,
>technically I'm being able to
>don't do what a "being
>that has all the power
>of the universe" says me
>to do.

No, it means you're fried.

>And that means that he doesn't
>has all the power of
>the universe...

No, it shows that he has the power to even LET you decide. Power is the ability to withold your own power.

>>Oh, and so you're claiming an evolved human is
>>a "hacker?" No, I'm saying that we've evolved
>>past the point of believing that words are set
>>in stone and are not influenced by society.
>>
>>I really don't know where you got that last rant
>
>Before answer, read what you have
>posted, read what I'm posted
>and then write what you
>think it's okay.

I just did, and guess what? You're pushing points that don't exist.

>No, an evolved human is not
>a "hacker", but the people
>that are you claming to
>be evolved aren't hackers, then,
>what you mean is that
>hackers aren't humans because they
>don't evolve with the rest
>of the "society".

Now where did you pull that out of what I wrote?

You speak of hackers as if they have a say in what goes on in the world. Yeah in their immediate environment they do, but where else? Nowhere.

Hackers evolving with society?

I was saying that most of us evolve with society and come to accept the FACT that society changed, along with all that it encompasses. You are not evolving, and living in a false reality that believes that words have set meanings that do not change and should because the first meaning is always right.

>Society society society... When you finish
>the high school you're gonna
>understand what is the society,
>and how fucked up is
>the world you are living
>in.

I already know what society is and how inefficient it is.

You weren't here when I posted my so-called (by Ares) Xotorian World Order ideals on the old board. It dealt with MANY facets of society, including the internet.

Don't tell me that I don't understand society.

> How big organization control
>us, and the ones who
>can't control are claimed as
>enemies.

You're more affected by the propaganda distributed by paranoid, introvert, "old hacker" people.

Maybe you should wake up, look around you and realize that we live in one of the most free societies the planet has ever known. Take a look at Russia during the Soviet Era, look at the United States during the 1910's, THEY were oppressed. I'd suggest you take some history classes and quit soaking up the propaganda distributed by people who feel they've been wronged by a society which gives them so much.

That's what I hate about people who complain about what they have. Do you think that ANY nation lives as well as people in the United States? We live in no threat of war, we don't have the government spying on us to keep us in check, we have the right to arms, to free speech, to sleep without fear of being forces out of our house, we can complain about the government without retaliation. And you complain that "big bosses" are manipulating your mind? These "big bosses" are rich because they were opprotunistic, took a chance, and made it big.

The United States STILL IS the land of opportunity. The Internet is the land of opportunity. We live in a day and age where you can make money creating WEB SITES. You can start your own business with little to nothing. We have free web site hosting.

Don't tell me that you are deprived.

>A recommendation, talk to
>sociologists and philosophers. These guys
>knows everything about life.

I took sociology. One thing they emphasized was that sociologists and philosphers STILL don't know anything. They only point out patterns.

If these guys are your Gods, you're worshipping people who THEMSELVES, realize that they cannot explain humans.

>And you don't know about the
>last "rant" because you didn't
>understood what I posted.

I understand that you don't make any reasonable arguments.

>>Again, you're creating another illusion. As cool
>>as you think you are by "rejecting society" you
>>are only being influenced by another part of it.
>
>Oh my god... Stop talking as
>a unity. The fucking life
>is completly divided, life is
>completly unfair, humans are completly
>divided, talking about a society
>as a totality is completly
>absurd.

And you can't accept that a word has more than one meaning? Contradictions, contradictions.

Society is everything that influences us that is not us. Okay, you're not rejecting ALL of society, but you're rejecting BIG chunk of it. The media is pretty representative of the people who are not in your immediate surroundings. Internet is media, television is media. You hate the media so much and yet you are part of it.

>>More illusions. Has society done you wrong?
>Go and eat in McDonalds, buy
>a Ferrari, bought clothes from
>Pierre Cardin and Nike shoes.
>Then, find out that the
>presidents of these companies is
>just one guy.

Do I have to buy from these people? Am I FORCED? Could I just live a life of simplicity and never be really affected by these people? Yes I can. The Amish do that. I have choices.

As for monopolies:

I believe that if a monopoly can and DOES create the best product there is and does not overcharge for it, I will accept that monopoly with open arms.

The fear of monopolies is only because most monopolies, after they become monopolies, charge to much and give too little.

What you do want? A single good dictator, or a congress of idiots?

>That's a fact, did you read
>"The Third Wave"?

Can't say I have.

Have you read 1984? Do you know why that society was so horrible? Because the quality of progress and life was horrible.

But I digress. You see society as such a bad thing, but it isn't.

>>>How old are you?
>>>What are your dreams? You have?
>>>
>>>Do you like to control? Do
>>>you like to be controlled?
>>>
>>>Do you think only by yourself,
>>>or you care what other
>>>peoples believes?
>>>Do you believe in parapsychology?
>>>Do you believe in God? In
>>>Jesus?
>>
>>And this has something to do with the topic in >what way...?
>>
>In the way that you completly
>ignore the real life, and
>you claim as ignorants as
>the people who knows but
>you can't understand them.

"Ignore the real life"? Wait, this is coming from a guy who is making out media to be something it isn't, doesn't accept that words can have multiple meanins under different contexts, thinks there are "big bosses" out to get him, and believes that the word "hacker" changed because of the movie "Hackers"?

The only real life you know is the one inside your head.

>>>What is to be intelligent?
>>
>>To be useful.
>>
>A hacker was useful, todays hackers
>aren't useful, ooh, yes!! How
>do you want original hackers
>to accept that?

By placing it under a different context. Easy concept here.

>>>Do you think what you speak,
>>>or do you speak what
>>>you think?
>>
>>Try to stick to the topic.
>>
>To avoid is to don't allow
>knowledge to fill your mind,
>and that's called to be
>an ignorant.

But to change the topic is to try to find a way out of your original point because you can't support it.

>Bye bye!

Try backing up your claims with something huh?

>PS: I'm really tired of talking
>about this, I would like
>to finish this saying that
>you have a concept in
>mind and I have another
>one and that is.
>I don't want to be your
>enemy, I want to be
>friends, we just have differents
>points of views and all
>of them are corrects.

No, I'm going to come forth and say that my point is correct and yours isn't. I'm not talking on points of view, I'm saying that you are WRONG.

Please don't put forth the "we are all correct" idea when you don't believe it because I know you don't.

>"There're little humans that are capable
>to express with equality, opinions
>that differs from prejudices of
>his environment"
> - Albert Einstein
>
>I hope it's well traduced, but,
>Albert seems to think like
>I am ;-)

And you try to reject society or parts of it when you already KNOW you cannot? Why are you arguing then?

-Xotor-

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A very high wall..

>I understand your point of view.
>
>
>It's okay, it's illegal, but I
>don't care if it's illegal,
>I care about "society" ignorance
>and stupidity.
>Assault has 3 years penalty
>Kevin was originally sentenced to 200
>YEARS (yes two hundred) because
>he entered by curiosity to
>a computer system.
>
>Isn't that stupidity?

Kevin broke into NORAD, and could have caused a nuclear scare resulting in a nuclear war. He also broke into universities, cellular networks, credit bureaus, corporations, and phone companies. He affected a lot of people and was only stopped by Tsutomo Shimomura who was considered the top specialist of security in the country.

Someone punched someone when drunk in a bar and is charged with assault.

Is that stupidity?

>That's all. If you understand that,
>ok, sorry if I couldn't
>figure it out.
>
>:-)

I'm sorry too.

-Xotor-

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RE: You are wrong

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>Let's see what can I do...
>;-)
>
>I'm gonna put the example of
>the hacker Kevin Mitnick.
>He was accused of stealing 20.000
>credit cards numbers.
>What was the matter? He entered
>illegaly to a computer system
>and get the numbers. The
>fact is that he never
>used them. So, the difference
>that the hackers proclaim here
>is. A cracker would used
>them. He didn't do that.
>

Holy SHIT! Not only are you operating under misconceptions, but you use bad examples that aren't even correct. Mitnick broke into several systems taking design plans and whatnot of different companies, which they later released for free, but then claimed to the Feds that it was worth millions of dollars. Among MANY other more severe things. Look at the whole picture sometime before looking at your own paranoid version of it.

You talk about stupid people, I'll accept you as ignorant, but look in the mirror and ask yourself if you don't want to be counted as stupid. Because you are quickly starting to look that way.

>A hacker builds, a cracker destroy.
>Simply as that.

And yet you show your ignorance.
There are different meaning to a word, not just the ones that you choose to believe in out of sheer stupidity.

A hacker, by DEFINITION, is a computer buff. First definition.

Second definition, is a code assembler.

Both kinds of hackers with good or ill intent have to make their own code and know a hell of a lot about operating systems.

It's like gun owners.
Some are respectable homeowners, and others criminals. Yet who does the media blame the guns on? The criminals. Thus laying the blame on whomever owns the guns. Yet you would try and argue that the real meaning of gun owners is the ones who are the respectable homeowners, and that criminals don't exist.

That's the best parallel I can come up with. And if you fail to see the logic behind that, then I am truely sorry for you.
 
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