They are trying to do the good thing, stop facebook from selling user data. And they are legally saying this, and trying to make facebook/social media better. So its hacking. Cracking is something that lay the whole system down and people are penalized.
Regards Akash Deep Shakya On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Shakthi Kannan <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > --- On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Akash Deep Shakya > <[email protected]> wrote: > | A little off topic but its exciting :) KILL FACEBOOK > | > | http://www.businessinsider.com/anonymous-facebook-2011-8 > \-- > > Terminology, please. They are referring to "crackers". Hackers are > programmers who are passionate in solving problems, and taking > programming to the next level. Yes, the media has misused the term for > decades. Kindly refrain from posting such e-mails. > > Also read: > > http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/appb.html > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html > > > http://www.betabeat.com/2011/07/26/hacked-to-death-how-journalists-are-ruining-the-word-hacker/ > > SK > > -- > Shakthi Kannan > http://www.shakthimaan.com > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/
