On Sunday 15 Jul 2012, Vickram Crishna wrote: > 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-ethica > l-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'.
Perhaps the old term for a newspaper reporter/editor (hack) also has something to do with the etymology. AFAIR a hack reporter used to be one who could produce a quick-fill for a few columns in the paper at short notice, possibly sacrificing quality in the process. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || [email protected] || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F
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