[ePT news] Who is a hacker?
Jimkats1
As in Greece's Top 5 articles, there is only 1 article, I decided to write another random article just to fill the space a bit, within few minutes :d.
So we will see who is a hacker, according to this article from K4linux : Linux Tutorials.
A hacker is someone who seeks and exploits weaknesses in a computer system or computer network.
Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, or challenge.
Another definition of Hacker:
A computer hacker is someone who lives and breathes computers, who knows all about computers, who can get a computer to do anything.
Equally important, though, is the hacker's attitude. Computer programming must be a hobby, something done for fun, not out of a sense of duty or for the money.
(It's Okay to make money, but that can't be the reason for hacking.)
That's what pretty much happens even at eRepublik and most times at players' accounts.
There are several techniques to find the password and the e-mail of a player's account, but I'm not gonna discuss them, as that would be against the eRepublik Laws.
So, I'm gonna tell you only how to protect your account:
- The email you use as login, must be kept secret as much as possible from other players (inside eRepublik's site and as similar sites, such as forums), because if a hacker knows your login email, then he will have less difficulty to access your account.
- The password must be complicated and by that, it doesn't mean random characters (as if it was a random generated string), but it could even be simple words, such as "localadmin", but written with multi-characters, such as "L0caLaDM1n" or "10cA!AdM1n" or whatever. That way, it will be difficult for the hacker to find your password.
Remember. No system is completely safe from hackers, but it's really hard, expensive and power consuming to breach the security of a system, that's why it's not so often issue in the Internet.
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voted & καλή επιτυχία στην Γαλλία στην Eurovision!!!
Πορτοκαλίνουξ.
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Αυτός δεν ήταν κολλητάρι με τον Κουμπούντουγλου;
Μπα, ήταν μακρινός ξάδελφος με τον Ντεμπιάνογλου.
Για κωδικό ασφαλείας να χρησιμοποιείτε τουλ. 21 χαρακτήρες, σημεία στίξης και αριθμούς, εκ των οποίων το ένα ελληνικό (π.χ. "σ") αν είναι δυνατόν (δηλ. εάν μπορείτε να το απομνημονεύσετε....).
Αυτό θα ήταν προτιμότερο για μεγάλα συστήματα, όπως π.χ. η βάση δεδομένων του ΙΚΑ (βρήκα παράδειγμα κι εγώ 😛). Σε περιπτώσεις όπως π.χ. προφίλ στο παιχνίδι που δεν έχει και τα τρομερά μυστικά, δεν χρειάζεται ο άλλος να κάτσει να φτιάξει κανά δύσκολο μακρυνάρι, διότι ποιός άλλος παίχτης θα κάτσει να καταναλώσει χρόνο για να μπει στο προφίλ ενός; Είπαμε, ρεαλισμός 😛.
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Voted, but I strongly disagree with those definitions. Hacker is the one fixing thing and Cracker is the one that exploits software/security bugs.
Hackers are those who penetrate systems in order to alter their functionality or steal information.
Crackers are those who penetrate systems in order to exploit software/security bugs (as you said) so to fix them and reinforce them.
That's my opinion of the definitions hackers and crackers. The definition in the article are the one that site provides.
The term "hacking" was first used back in the 1950s in MIT, to describe the act of finding a computer network security vulnerability in order to SOLVE it and PREVENT malicious actions.
So, the HACKERS are the ones that EXPOSE holes in computer systems with NO ILL INTENTIONS. They almost NEVER INTENTIONALLY DESTROY any of the vital data etc, as they want to FIND OUT what CAUSED the hole in the system and find a way to FIX it.
On the other hand, CRACKERS are the ones that DESTRUCT systems. They always come with MALICIOUS INTENTIONS. Once they get unauthorized access to a system, they will either delete or steal data and/or deny access to the legitimate user and/or create any other problem to their targets.
tl;dr
hacker is the good guy
cracker is the as*hole
I totally agree with you man! That's what I knew until now!
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