A hacker is also somebody who programs enthustically or obsessively, rather than just theorizes about programming. ... (Crackers) don't buy computer games, but they get online anyway, managing to get their hands on registration access codes. ... No crackers steal...hackers don't..That's sort of the point OGL
Care to blurr the line a bit more?
Seriously tho... romanticizing crackers will get you nowhere. There is a world where little kids log on to BBS's and download Doom 2 a month before its release allongside 'boxes.txt' and 'qcrack.zip'. This is the world of the cracker.
There is another world where bright young semiprofessionals figure out that encryption algorythm, or how to build their own tellephone, or how to get ahold of some id beta tester's computer. This is the world of the hacker.
One creates the exploits, but is too noble to use them. The others use the exploits, but are too ignorant to make their own.
You would expect that one would move from one world to the other. I would hope this happens when they turn 18 (when juvinile records wonderfully dissipate), but there are some crackers that refuse to grow up.
They do have common traits. Crackers wants to be hackers so why not emulate your heroes? Cusade for justice and a free copy of Quake 3! Smash online censorship and mailbomb that governor who proposed the dumb anti-porn (i mean anti-free speech) law!
When do the hackers grow up? When they figure out it's cooler to code up a constructive piece of software than to distribute 'papasmurf.c' to a zillion script kiddies. Then they are programmers.
We need less blurring of the lines here. We don't need to call programmers hackers and hackers crackers and romanticize all three. We need to learn that positive contribution to the community means a kernel bugfix, not redistributing a film, song, or game that cost some honest professional spent part of his life creating.
Hackers don't steal... they just code... (Score:1)
(Crackers) don't buy computer games, but they get online anyway, managing to get their hands on registration access codes.
No crackers steal...hackers don't..That's sort of the point OGL
Care to blurr the line a bit more?
Seriously tho... romanticizing crackers will get you nowhere. There is a world where little kids log on to BBS's and download Doom 2 a month before its release allongside 'boxes.txt' and 'qcrack.zip'. This is the world of the cracker.
There is another world where bright young semiprofessionals figure out that encryption algorythm, or how to build their own tellephone, or how to get ahold of some id beta tester's computer. This is the world of the hacker.
One creates the exploits, but is too noble to use them. The others use the exploits, but are too ignorant to make their own.
You would expect that one would move from one world to the other. I would hope this happens when they turn 18 (when juvinile records wonderfully dissipate), but there are some crackers that refuse to grow up.
They do have common traits. Crackers wants to be hackers so why not emulate your heroes? Cusade for justice and a free copy of Quake 3! Smash online censorship and mailbomb that governor who proposed the dumb anti-porn (i mean anti-free speech) law!
When do the hackers grow up? When they figure out it's cooler to code up a constructive piece of software than to distribute 'papasmurf.c' to a zillion script kiddies. Then they are programmers.
We need less blurring of the lines here. We don't need to call programmers hackers and hackers crackers and romanticize all three. We need to learn that positive contribution to the community means a kernel bugfix, not redistributing a film, song, or game that cost some honest professional spent part of his life creating.