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Published: 13.04.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Hackers Good or Evil?', 1.
  • Essays 'Hackers Good or Evil?', 2.
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Hackers: Good vs. Evil
The title "Hacker" is often associated with a social outcast banging away at the keys of his homemade supercomputer, all night and into the morning. You might picture this person locking themselves in a room for days; conspiring to steal, vandalize others property, and just plan cause destruction. The media has portrayed a hacker to be exactly that, when in fact the term to really describe this kind of behavior is a cracker. A cracker is one who breaks security on a system. Coined by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse of the term "hacker". …

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