How To Become A Hacker

 Today, I read “How To Become A Hacker” by Eric S. Raymond.

I always thought that hackers are people who are breaking into computers, stealing passwords and doing other funny things. But now I know that hackers are more network-anarchists who support free-software , obey Netiquette rule nr 6  and do other funny things. About those who I called “hackers” are actually named “crackers”.


In the article Eric S. Raymond describes Hackers as sort of sub-culture and community and tells how to become part of it. Not only tells basic skills (like programming and unix operating) but also gives recommendations about personality development. I don't sure that “Train in a martial-arts form.'' and ”Study an actual meditation discipline.” help become a hacker but definitely got things to study.


As I know, nowadays they do not call themselves “hackers” anymore but they still exist. And if you want to become part of them you need basicli support free-software in different ways,publish useful information and do different supportive internet things.

But if you want to get the password for someone else's account, break into/read/monitor someone else's email or/and steal channel op privileges on IRC then, please, “Get lost, moron” and call yourself cracker.


As for me, this article got me interested in this subculture. Maybe I try to become part of them.

I want to recommend reading this article to everyone who uses the internet. Because I think that “hackers” make the world wide web better.


You can read more here.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Ethics and IT

  Ethics and IT In the last post, I need to write about one of the online codes of ethics for IT. I chose to write about ITP mandatory code of ethics. Well, mostly just copy-paste the official info. The Institute of IT Professionals New Zealand Incorporated (ITP), a non-profit association of IT professionals in New Zealand. In order to obtain membership status, one must agree to the company's code of ethics.  The full Code of Ethics is made up of three components: The code itself, made up of the 8 Tenets Guidelines and Interpretation, to assist in interpretation of the Code Breaches and Disciplinary Process, defined within the IITP Bylaws The 8 Tenets: Good faith - Members shall treat people with dignity, good faith and equality, without discrimination; Integrity - Members shall act in the execution of their profession with integrity, dignity and honors to merit the trust of the community and the profession, and apply honesty, skill, judgement and initiative to contribute positiv
Read more

A few facts about history of video games.

The last day of the deadline. It's time to write the blog. Subject - "Describe three exciting historical IT solutions": before 1900, 1901-1950 and 1951-2000. So, I decided to write about a few interesting game facts. First artificial game opponent or “Mechanical Turk” One of the most famous and popular turn-based strategies is chess. And one of the oldest. Not surprised, that first not-human opponent was invented for this game.  “Mechanical Turk” was constructed by Wolfgang von Kempelen in 1770 by Wolfgang von Kempelen. “Turk” was the automaton - a relatively self-operating machine. “Gameplay began with the Turk moving his head from side to side to survey the board before appearing to decide on the first move. His left arm then jerked forward, the fingers splayed, and he picked up a chess piece, moving it to another square before setting it down.” 2. And he plays very well. He even can detect when humans are cheating. That was impressive ….trick. It actually was operated
Read more

Introduction

So, if I want to get high mark (or at least positive) in the subject "Social, Professional and Ethical Aspects of IT", I need to write a post mostly every week. Sounds easy, but feels hard. Hope the themes of posts will be not too complicated. OK. My name is Mihhail and Welcome to my first blog! I wish you will enj... not suffer (to much) from reading this.😅
Read more