On Thursday 04 January 2007 20:57, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > On Thursday 04 January 2007 20:12, Koustubha Kale wrote: > > > A guest lecture has been arranged by Department of > > > IT, > > > VPM's BN Bandodkar College of science, Thane College > > > Campus on "Ethical Hacking" on 18th december 2006 at > > > 1500 hrs > > > > > > The speaker will be the author of the book > > > "Unofficial > > > guide to ethical hacking" Shri Ankit Fadia. > > > > FYI. > > Can someone on this explain me what is "unethical" about hacking? > Cracking is unethical, right? Hacking is always ethical if I am not > wrong? :P
Except if you are hacking someone to death. Hack was the term for a writer who was not very good perhaps a shortened form of hackneyed. Which brilliant programmers started depreciatingly calling themselves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(technology_slang) -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
