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Exactly what is hacking?
xzid:
cool, tommorow could start something in "Projects and Discussion".. see how many people wanna contribute, make a rough draft.
kinda late, had few drinks, watchin LoTR... cannot now, although might be best if you start it ande.
Tsar:
1. Hacking is simply using something in a way that it was not originally intended for. Today the term is bastardized however and is often used to describe the act of breaking into computer systems.
2. The process is a mixture of both security and computer knowledge. The rest is just using this knowledge to think analytically.
3. Ande summed it up good, but ill recant; it is programming that creates software, it is programming that makes software insecure or secure, by understanding programming, you will understand computer security. It is much like becoming an expert on locks; a locksmith with a strong understanding of how locks work and the different types and systems locks use, is more likely to be able to analyze a lock and open or break into a lock that is insecure than a regular every day person would.
--- Quote from: ande on December 30, 2011, 04:30:19 am ---Most movies are far from the real deal indeed.
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On a side note: I recently watched "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" and hacking is portrayed pretty well, I didn't see anything that was unrealistic and as someone in computer security I think I picked up on a lot of the stuff they were doing in the film that they didn't explain that others would not have.
xzid:
pfftt.. hackers was totally accurate, supercomputers are totally made up of LCDs displaying filenames(shells? lolwut?), program code does look like a trip and chix can totally h4x0rz. Zero Cool FTW.
sp0rk:
Haven't you seen the movie Swordfish man? It's exactly like that.
:P
Yes I agree we should start a dedicated thread.
Kulverstukas:
A thread like this was already started before where I gave a descriptive piece of my mind. I won't CP what I said - too long. But...
Hacking for me means lots of things - depends on the context and how you will look at it. I can safely say that I am a hacker, because hacking for me is breaking things to make it better, or "hacking up" some stuff together to make one thing for something. So I am more of a hardware h4x0r :P
(if you think hacking is only for cracking server software, you are very wrong...)
Hacking can also mean chopping wood with an Axe.
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