Who are hacker, cracker? what hacker do? Introduction of Hacker And Cracker

I feel it is necessary to clarify the term hacker. Perhaps yourdefinition of a hacker has been influenced and tainted over the years. There have been various computer related activities attributed to the term “hacker”, but were greatly misunderstood. Unfortunately for the people who are truly defined within the underground tech world as a “hacker” this is an insult to them.




There are various types of “hackers”, each with their ownagenda. My goal is to help protect you from the worst of them.

Anarchist Hackers

These are the individuals who you should be weary of. Their sole intent on system infiltration is to cause damage or use information to create havoc. They are primarily the individualswho are responsible for the majority of system attacks against home users. They are more likely to be interested in what lies onanother person’s machine for example yours.

Mostly you’ll find that these individuals have slightly above computer skill level and consider themselves hackers. They glorify themselves on the accomplishments of others. Their idea of classing themselves as a hacker is that of acquire programsand utilities readily available on the net, use these programs withno real knowledge of how these applications work and if they manage to “break” into someone’s system class themselves as a hacker. These individuals are called “Kiddie Hackers.”

They use these programs given to them in a malicious fashion on anyone they can infect. They have no real purpose to what theyare doing except the fact of saying “Yeah! I broke into computer!” It gives them bragging rights to their friends.

If there is any damage to occur in a system being broken into these individuals will accomplish it.

These individuals are usually high school students. They bragabout their accomplishments to their friends and try to build animage of being hackers.

Hackers

A hacker by definition believes in access to free information.They are usually very intelligent people who could care very little about what you have on your system. Their thrill comes from system infiltration for information reasons. Hackers unlike“crackers and anarchist” know being able to break system security doesn’t make you a hacker any more than adding 2+2 makes you a mathematician. Unfortunately, many journalists and writers have been fooled into using the word ‘hacker.” Theyhave attributed any computer related illegal activities to the term“hacker.”

Real hackers target mainly government institution. They believe important information can be found within government institutions. To them the risk is worth it. The higher the security the better the challenge. The better the challenge the better they need to be. Who’s the best keyboard cowboy? So to speak!

These individuals come in a variety of age classes. They range from High School students to University Grads. They are quite adept at programming and are smart enough to stay out of the spotlight.

They don’t particularly care about bragging about their accomplishments as it exposes them to suspicion. They prefer to work from behind the scenes and preserve their anonymity.

Not all hackers are loners, often you’ll find they have a very tight circle of associates, but still there is a level of anonymity between them. An associate of mine once said to me “if they say they area hacker, then they’re not!”

Crackers

For definition purposes I have included this term. This is primarily the term given to individuals who are skilled at the artof by passing software copyright protection. They are usuallyhighly skilled in programming languages.

They are often confused with Hackers. As you can see they are similar in their agenda. They both fight security of some kind,but they are completely different “animals.”

Being able to attribute your attacks to the right type of attacker isvery important. By identifying your attacker to be either an Anarchist Hacker or a Hacker you get a better idea of what you’reup against.

“Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always bevictorious…”