fora.tv— Pablos Holman is a futurist, IT security expert, and notorious hacker with a unique view into both breaking and building new technologies.
Feb 8, 2009View in Crawl 4
Humor organ is removed from the child at the birth. It's an old tradition in Germany. Trying to make a german laugh is like trying to find the extra skin on a jew.
Nope. Some people will keep trying to spread that nonsense, but it's widely discredited. Cracking specficially refers to undoing or disabling a software security feature. You can crack a password from its hash, crack a code, crack encryption, or crack the copyright protection on a game. "Cracker" with -er on the end is not a person at all. The only thing crackER refers to is perhaps an automated tool that can do one of the above, such as l0phtcrack as a password cracker.Hacking, on the other hand, is getting computer technology to do things it wasn't designed to do or isn't supposed to do. This may include gaining unauthorized access to things by cracking a password, or it might be tricking the software using unexpected input, or taking apart an iPod and putting it back together differently. Anyone who does things with computers that the manufacturers and owners didn't intend is a "Hacker." It doesn't matter if he's good or bad, if he's a scientist or just guessing your password. He's a hacker. It usually carries a negative connotation. Security Researcher is a better term for someone who spends time hacking in order to improve technology.
hitforhelpFeb 9, 2009
Yeh it is, its a good watch, made me feel i had done something useful with my sunday for a change.
mrbitchFeb 9, 2009
liek prosicuted for they,re actions?Are you using some sort of broken ass "-to-english" translating service?
bde5Feb 9, 2009
Humor organ is removed from the child at the birth. It's an old tradition in Germany. Trying to make a german laugh is like trying to find the extra skin on a jew.
theyarFeb 9, 2009
Nope. Some people will keep trying to spread that nonsense, but it's widely discredited. Cracking specficially refers to undoing or disabling a software security feature. You can crack a password from its hash, crack a code, crack encryption, or crack the copyright protection on a game. "Cracker" with -er on the end is not a person at all. The only thing crackER refers to is perhaps an automated tool that can do one of the above, such as l0phtcrack as a password cracker.Hacking, on the other hand, is getting computer technology to do things it wasn't designed to do or isn't supposed to do. This may include gaining unauthorized access to things by cracking a password, or it might be tricking the software using unexpected input, or taking apart an iPod and putting it back together differently. Anyone who does things with computers that the manufacturers and owners didn't intend is a "Hacker." It doesn't matter if he's good or bad, if he's a scientist or just guessing your password. He's a hacker. It usually carries a negative connotation. Security Researcher is a better term for someone who spends time hacking in order to improve technology.