On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar < siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Nitesh Mistrymistrynitesh@gmail.com wrote:
But exactly the reverse is what Institute of Chartered Accountants of
India
teaches in the subject of "Management Information and Control Systems"
which
is a separate 100 marks paper in our CA syllabus. This is what they asked us in the exam this time- "List the main threats from hacking" And I was supposed to criticise hacking or else stand to loose 4 marks!
The word may imply different things in different context. When used in the Free Software or academic circles, it is what KK defines it as. For a lay person, when used in a technical context, it almost always implies cracking. When used in context of farming it means cutting grass. When used in the military/terrorist/killer context, it means killing people.
But I guess you may be right. It is More like how a lay person understands software. So here, hacking actually meant cracking.