On Thu, 2 May 2002, Chandrakumar Muthaiah wrote: > Help newbies but not lazy poke. From the origin of the > thread email, I think you guys should have understood > that he is a genuine person asking about things.
The post was directed at the person *answering* the query, not the person asking it. > there are big things about being hacker and cracker. I > think hacker and cracker are almost the same in some > context if you take technically. A hacker and a cracker are completely different. Hackers build things, crackers break them. > 1. Cracker need not be a lazy poke. he cane be a guy who can't afford > to pay for software licences. Who wants to to break or reverse > engineer the existing technology(in fact it can be a misuse, But I > don't care). Like for example DeCSS. They are not lazy poke, but > infact those huys have done some thing really good. Like putting > things against software patent. Those are hackers, not crackers. Crackers are the guys who break into other people's networks without their permission. Hackers are people who write software because they like to. Hackers are people who help other people. Hackers do not, nor do they care to, break into other people's systems. > 2. Hacker most often does things to learn new things and ker is like > more like hacker, except the thing that cracker and hacker do the same > thing in different places. Partly right. A hacker works on his own systems. > My conclusions would be I don't see any difference between cracker and > hacker, as long as they both are trying to do something good for the A cracker does not do good for anyone. > Yopu can see lots of crackers who do good things about reverse > engineering the existing code which actually helps lots of people know > the existance of the technologies. They are not crackers. Read http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/writings/hackers-not-crackers.html also read the references in there. Philip -- Keep it simple to make it faster. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plaugher) _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
