On Jul 15, 2012 3:37 PM, "V. Sasi Kumar" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 10:15 +0530, Vickram Crishna wrote: > > > > On Jul 15, 2012 8:50 AM, "satyaakam goswami" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > >> > > >> But the FSMK people have decided to use the term "ethical hacking" > > for > > >> "hacking + Activism" and possibly beyond. > > >> http://www.fsmk.org/ethical-hacking > > >> > > >> Is this a good move? > > > > > > > > > time will tell , so far the users of the term have had made money , > > also the motive of FSMK is not clear may be they wanted to catch the > > attention as in publicity since the spin web doctors and media have > > done so much to register the term in people 's mind it makes it so > > much more easier to sell something than just old philosophical and > > moral high ground points. > > > > > > etymologically speaking there is some research to be done to find > > how this word came into being , > > Wikipedia says, "Ethical hacking is a term coined by IBM meant to imply > a broader category than just penetration testing." May be true, may not > be. God knows. See: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hat_(computer_security)
It looks like a fairly dodgy reference, going straight back to the infosec industry. Sort of like asking an elf if Santa exists. http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/4611/license-to-hack-ethical-hacking/ The article begins by asking ' If the term hacking means to cut or chop roughly through a computer system, then how do you perform it without damage to the software? How can you ride roughshod (hack), between applications, memory and operating systems, while other applications are live and available to the business, without causing any problems to the operators?' I hadn't realised that hacking meant to cut or chop roughly through a computer system, I felt it was closer to the meaning of doing a quick and dirty – and possibly more elegant – repair or improvement to an existing bit of code. See Steve Wozniak's autobiography 'iWoz'. The actual quote about IBM is again only somebody's opinion, quoted in the article. My feeling is that some wikipedian will correct this article soon (maybe me, if I get around to it).
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