hack1.txt

The dictionary.com definition:

hack·er1 Pronunciation Key (h k r)
n. Informal
1. One who is proficient at using or programming a computer; a computer buff.
2. One who uses programming skills to gain illegal access to a computer network or file.
3. One who enthusiastically pursues a game or sport: a weekend tennis hacker.

Historically, the definitions of words in a language changes over time. I’m sure there is someone out there who is educated and can provide me with the term for this phenomenon; and whoever you are, you can go fuck yourself. I’m not bragging to be a scholar, because that is something that I’m not. However, I am a hacker, and because of this I can make the following statements.

1) A hacker is someone who hacks.
2) Hacking is comprimising computers/computer networks.

A hacker is not someone who writes socalled “useful code” (operating systems, applications, etc). Hackers write tools to aide with the comprimise of computer networks. And hackers _use_ those tools; they do not sell them to the highest bidder, and they do not use them to make a name for theirself so that they can then become a “security consultant”.

Silly rhetoric aside — the important point is this: Hackers hack.

If you do not hack, you are not a hacker. That simple.

On a semi-related note. . .

Anyone who claims to be an “ethical hacker” is a moron. Hacking has nothing to do with ethics. There is no “ethical hacking” or “unethical hacking”; there is only hacking. If you have to dance around the definition of what a hacker is, or you have to dance around the definition of what hacking is, then what you do is not hacking, and you are not a hacker.

-a PHC member