[Mailinglist] help to combat hacking

[gingerjoos]

Hello,

Careful! You could be eaten alive in some forums if you used the term
"hacker" the way you did.

Among some computer programmers in good standing with the technical
> community, the words *hacker* and *hacking* are used more often in the
> admiring or awed sense of a skilled software developer. People favoring this
> usage typically look with dismay on the usage of the term as a synonym for security
> cracking <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_cracking>.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_definition_controversy
http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html

The correct term would be "cracker".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_%28computing%29

~~~~Anirudh S

On 1/1/07, keralawebdirectory <contact at keralawebdirectory.com> wrote:
>
> is there any anti hacker forum wher we can discuss about hackers?
>
> does any one know anything about the activiies of  a hacker called CWLeKe
> //
> Turkish Hacker
>
>
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