On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Shakthi Kannan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > --- On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Amit Agrawal > <[email protected]> wrote: > | A 16 hours training of Ethical Hacking and Information Security is being > | ... > \-- > > Terminology please. > > Hacking is the art of programming. Hackers are people who are > passionate about solving challenging problems, and take it to the > highest level. What you are referring to is called cracking. Yes, the > media has misused the term a lot. Please keep the sanity of the word > hackers atleast in F/OSS mailing lists. Further reading [1] [2], > > Thanks, > > SK > > [1] How to become a hacker. http://catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html > > [2] Free as in freedom. http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ >
More specifically, this link might shed more light on the use of the terminology. Especially the letter by RMS: http://catb.org/jargon/html/appendixc.html The course and the initiative are great, but since there's nothing 'unethical' about 'hacking,' the term 'ethical hacking' is really an oxymoron. I think Ankit Fadia started the use of this term, and he has received enough bashing from the hacker community for that. Bibek -- 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/
