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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 4:24 am
by Chris Corbyn
pilau wrote:
d11wtq wrote:
pilau 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.
The sign of rising hacker ;)
Should I take that as a compliment or as an insult? :)
The first one ;)

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 4:29 am
by pilau
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)

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 4:34 am
by Chris Corbyn
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)
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.

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.

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 4:37 am
by pilau
Well that helped to clear things out :)
d11wtq wrote: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.
I do it myself as well somtime.

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 4:39 am
by feyd
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