Term Hacker

[Mr.Joker]

I founded many explanations about this term, but I am not sure which one is the one. As I understand so far, hacker is a person who do cyber crime. Thats how I figure it out so far. But one person telling me I am totaly wrong, and hackers are people which can find some mestace on website and so on but dont need to do any damage. Anyway they are hackers too but good one (white hack). He also mention cracker. So please help me understand this terms once for all.

[ande]

Quick rundown: You are 100% wrong. A hacker has nothing to do with crime.
Its not white hack but whitehat you are trying to express.
A cracker is by some a person who have no respect for anyone and will deface, hack and crack everything/anything in his path for fame, money and glory.
Additionally, you have grayhat and blackhat.

You might want to look at this discussion: http://evilzone.org/hacking-and-security/what-is-a-hacker-%28debate%29/

Maybe this one to: http://evilzone.org/tutorials/getting-into-the-hacker-mindset/

[Mr.Joker]

Thank you ande for opening my eyes

[Kulverstukas]

a hacker in my definition is a someone who brakes stuff to fix it and learn from it, or brakes it to make it better. Does not matter what does he brake - software or hardware, it is still the same. I guess I can say I am a hacker, not that I "hack" websites to fuck them up, but I like to brake stuff to make it better, or make something new out of other things...

Oh and yeah look at that debate, it is all explained.