|
I'd just like to say that not all hackers are evil and bent on screwing up other people's things. I read 2600, the hacker quarterly on a regular basis, and it's reader base is mostly just people who think technology is cool, and like to find out how things work. Sure, they might pull a prank (switching the input/output signals of fast food restaurants so people at burger king order burgers but the signal gets sent to taco bell, stuff like that), but part of the hacker creed is to not do anything harmful, EVER.
The people you are talking about are criminals, and therefore called... I'm not kidding... CRackers. Like hackers, they know technology, but they use it for CRiminal intent, hence CRacker.
- Rob
|