The first onepilau wrote:Should I take that as a compliment or as an insult?d11wtq wrote:The sign of rising hackerpilau wrote:...to study other software code only by looking at it. I've been doing that a lot lately, and now I'm hooked on vBulletin.
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- Chris Corbyn
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I actually never know what's with this "hacker" title. I mean, I understand that hackers are people who, basically, figure out how other people's software works. But what then? When everybody's speaking of people breaking into their PCs or into major systems worldwide they always speak of hackers. is that a myth? (sorry to take this way off-topic but this thread had gone off-topic already anyway)
I actually never know what's with this "hacker" title. I mean, I understand that hackers are people who, basically, figure out how other people's software works. But what then? When everybody's speaking of people breaking into their PCs or into major systems worldwide they always speak of hackers. is that a myth? (sorry to take this way off-topic but this thread had gone off-topic already anyway)
- Chris Corbyn
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That's a confused general public. Crackers break into things.... granted, they're also hackers but that's not the hacker part. Hackers just have an urge to understand as much as possible about code.pilau wrote:Yay
I actually never know what's with this "hacker" title. I mean, I understand that hackers are people who, basically, figure out how other people's software works. But what then? When everybody's speaking of people breaking into their PCs or into major systems worldwide they always speak of hackers. is that a myth? (sorry to take this way off-topic but this thread had gone off-topic already anyway)
Personally I don't find it offensive when people refer to crackers as hackers... I even do it myself depending on who I'm speaking with.
- feyd
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although I don't really want to go off topic, but also remember the many (colorful) hats of hackers too, some are better or worse than others..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker