For all you wannabe hackers

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For anyone whos interested, there is a "legal" hacking website that when you join gives you all sorts of tips and tutorials for "legal" hacking, such as retreiving lost XP passwords or even mucking around with source code. This doesn't teach you how to make viruses or steal other peoples personal info, otherwise it wouldn't be "legal". It's pretty fun and they have challenges that you can get points for completing them.

Take a look.

www.hellboundhackers.org

to the HBH guys, my username is Arc (5 points!)
 
Legal hacking, heh. There are two sides of hacking - Ethical and unethical. Hacking into peoples' computers = Unethical. Hacking into companies to show them where their security is inefficient = ...Ethical, I guess...
 
Nemesis6 said:
Legal hacking, heh. There are two sides of hacking - Ethical and unethical. Hacking into peoples' computers = Unethical. Hacking into companies to show them where their security is inefficient = ...Ethical, I guess...
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That made me chuckle.

Hm, might check that site out some time. Not interested to do it at the moment, but it sounds pretty neat.
 
Nemesis6 said:
Legal hacking, heh. There are two sides of hacking - Ethical and unethical. Hacking into peoples' computers = Unethical. Hacking into companies to show them where their security is inefficient = ...Ethical, I guess...
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Would it also be ethical to break into your home and tell you how you could improve security?
 
Parrot, don't ask moronic questions. Obviously that's pretty damn unethical.
 
Parrot of doom said:
Would it also be ethical to break into your home and tell you how you could improve security?
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legally speaking, there's probably a difference in what level of privacy you can reasonably expect in your home as compared to in a computer system. obviously your computer is far less secure than your home, and far more open to intrusion.
 
A cracker is the one who does cracking. Cracking is the act of breaking into a computer system, often on a network. A cracker can be doing this for profit, maliciously, for some altruistic purpose or cause, or because the challenge is there. Some breaking-and-entering has been done ostensibly to point out weaknesses in a site's security system.
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1) Eric Raymond, compiler of The New Hacker's Dictionary, defines a hacker as a clever programmer. A "good hack" is a clever solution to a programming problem and "hacking" is the act of doing it. Raymond lists five possible characteristics that qualify one as a hacker, which we paraphrase here:

* A person who enjoys learning details of a programming language or system
* A person who enjoys actually doing the programming rather than just theorizing about it
* A person capable of appreciating someone else's hacking
* A person who picks up programming quickly
* A person who is an expert at a particular programming language or system, as in "Unix hacker"
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Damn media mixing terms around.
 
What y'all wanna do?
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?
 
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