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what got you interested in hacking and what miorrels do you concider bofore you hack?

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Please ellaborate on your definition of hacking, depending on the context and the person it can mean a wide variety of things.

If its meant in the way I think it is (ie. hackthissite.org type stuff) then you shouldn't be generalising, most of the population of this community is not drawn from that website.

Edit: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hacker - Urbandictionary has definetly got it right this time.

Assuming what Tim said, I mostly hack just to see if it can be done.

Hacking to me is mostly for the learning, and also bettering of code. A good hacker would not only exploit bad code, but find ways to fix it. At least this is the way I look at it. Although it is good for the occasional bragging rights. Anyone who is seriously interested in hacking should check out kevin mitnicks book, and also the movie about him, "Operation: Takedown"

Hacking, for me, is very much just for the thrill. The challenge of finding a hole to exploit, the rush you get when you gain another level of access...and the fact that at the end, you've learned a lot more then you would from coding "Hello world" examples out of dry programming textbooks.

"Morals of my hacking"?

I avoid NDAs and I use goto statements very sparingly, if at all. Regular commenting is good, too.

Pantero Blanco wrote:I use goto statements very sparingly, if at all.

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10 PRINT "INFINITE LOOPz LOL!"
20 GOTO 10

On a more serious note, the unauthorized access of someone elses computer can never be justified morally. Whether or not you care, that's the matter.

I think its fun, but also I can learn from it and probably get a degree in some sort of programing. I am a legal hacker.

I love hacking, I love the challenge of it and how much it can teach you. I do it the strictly legal way - through wargame sites like www.hackthissite.org and by hacking my own computers.

Unless there is a proper definition of hacker, I can't answer this. A hacker can be one or more of:

• a programmer
• a cryptanalyst
• a person who looks for security issues
• a person who manipulates functions
• a person who cuts wood

mm_freak wrote:Unless there is a proper definition of hacker, I can't answer this. A hacker can be one or more of:

• a programmer
• a cryptanalyst
• a person who looks for security issues
• a person who manipulates functions
  
• a person who cuts wood

[*] a person who cuts wood

mm_freak wrote:Unless there is a proper definition of hacker, I can't answer this. A hacker can be one or more of:

• a programmer
• a cryptanalyst
• a person who looks for security issues
• a person who manipulates functions
• a person who cuts wood

[*] a person who really sux at golf?

I don`t understand anything about hacking and i`m not against hacking but to place a trojan to someone is not real heroic.

for me hacking is not just planting trojans.

for me its like getting things done on whatever means you know technically, of course related to compuers/Internet.

You left out a cabdriver: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab