hacker
n. Informal



1.
One who is proficient at using or
programming a computer; a computer buff.



2. One who uses programming skills to gain
illegal access to a computer network or file.



3. One who enthusiastically pursues a game
or sport: a weekend tennis hacker.



I am pointing at the first 2 there. It briefly
explains what a hacker does to some degree
anyway.

â€ÅÃ
¢â‚¬Å“What makes a hacker a hacker?
Thats kind of like asking what makes cheese cheese. Time and Patience makes good
cheese just like time and patience makes a
hacker. Learning new skills also makes a
hacker a hacker. Now for the point of this
essay what makes a hacker bad or good. I
intend to try to answer that in this essay.â€Ãâ
€šÃ‚



Hackers can be anyone. The kid next door,
your best friend even the guy that works
down at the local shops that helps you with
what you\'re looking for. Most people think
that hackers are druggies that shoot up
every night when you\'re asleep and break into your computer or that they\'re murders
I read some of the people that are scared of
hackers cant even turn on a computer. The
social base of a hacker isnt someone that
wears black clothes or sits alone in class in a
dark corner they could be the most popular kids in school.


Black Hat Hacker: Someone who breaks into
a system to do harm to it. Why do the
â€ÅÃ
¢â‚¬Å“black hatsââââ
‚¬Å¡Ã‚¬Ã‚ do this? Well if I
knew that I would tell you but the only way to find out if to ask a black hat him/herself. I
personally think prosecuting black hats is
stupid because they might be kind enough to
backup the webpage and leave a note for the
admin to tell them where it is then the admin
can fix up the hole. We all learn from our mistakes. But knowing you just ruined a
persons carrier by labeling them as a \'Black
Hat\' and persecuting them is just wrong
because who would hire someone who has a
record for computer hacker? Who? Noone
thats who.





Grey Hat Hacker: Someone who is in between
Black and White hat. They break into systems
and do damage but they are also kind enough
to tell the admin how to fix it. Unfortunatly
they still get prosecuted for helping people. If
you had to break the law to save someones life would you? Would you complain if you
went to jail and were never allowwed near
one of your most favourite things in the
world? Probably not. So once again. Why
persecute them?






White Hat Hacker: Probably the kindest
hackers known to mankind that are aware of
hackers. They break into the system and
leave a note with out doing any damage I\'ve
heard of very few white hats being
prosecuted. They break in as well but why dont they get prosecuted or is it only people
that do damage. Whatever happened to good
old breaking and entering laws? Why
prosecute two kinds of hackers yet not White
Hats?




Script-Kiddies: Not even worthy of the name
hacker. They use programs to DDOS websites
and crash servers then they go brag about it
in chat rooms on IRC ââââ
‚¬Å¡Ã‚¬Ã…“1 7007411y
0\\/\\/3|\\|3|) 7h47 b0x d00dà¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚¬Ã‚ No
one gives a Bleep you probably will get
arrested the next day anyway although I
dont think some companies waste their time
on these \'ub3r d00ds\'*cough*. So There you have it. Definitions of different
kinds of hackers.

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