On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Shakthi Kannan <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > > --- On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Shantanu Gupta <[email protected]> > wrote: > | You might need to reconsider the "flaws" part, Hacker is just someone who > | likes to play and tinker with computing devices and has so gained > knowledge > | about them which can be used in either a good way or the bad way > \-- > > Definitely not for bad ways. Sadly, people have been passing over the > wrong definition for years. > > For reference: > > * Free as in Freedom: > > http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ > > * How to become a hacker: > > http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html > > SK > > -- > Shakthi Kannan > http://www.shakthimaan.com Although i like your optimistic approach, it isn't that way always. I've been tinkering a lot with QCT MSM chips a lot recently, disassembling their IPLs and microcode but there are infact so many flaws in it which can be used for purposes like changing device IMEI, crashing the cell tower GSM stack etc but the astonishing part is that it's SO easy after you find out the flaws that you're tempted into using them for your advantage not realising they're bad things or maybe someone could even end up luring you to do that for him/her using greed. -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
