Hi Amit, On 23 February 2010 02:46, AmitAg <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for your info. > > I did not know. Actually as per government of Nepal, the term ' > Hacking' is and illegal. and so We put is as Anti- Hacking. Its > bascially Vulnerability Test. FOSS nepal group is a part of Organizing > Committe of Technomania 2010. > > Please guide us in future also. > Thanking you.
I am not associated with FOSS Nepal in any administrative/evangelical purpose; I am just a member and mailing list subscriber. However, I do want to point out about what you had to say. I prefer opensource programming over a closed one. Having said that, I agree with Shakthi Kannan in that the term "Hacking" is referred to as an art, a passion for developing code. "Cracking" is probably the derogatory term you're after. Although penetration testers today are referred to as hacker, the term has only recently seen an upsurge (late 80's to today think). Prior to that or around that period, hacking was considered part of a software development skill which mere mortals would have to work hard to attend to. It's connotation is still widely prevalent in commercial software development and OSS circle around the world and using such word to mean "cracking" has negative connotation towards what they do. Though there's a catch - sometimes, they mean entirely different thing for e.g., a "hackjob" - a quick and dirty solution to a problem etc. ;-) -- Regards Ishwor Gurung Key id:0xa98db35e Key fingerprint:FBEF 0D69 6DE1 C72B A5A8 35FE 5A9B F3BB 4E5E 17B5 -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
