On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 19:20 +0530, jtd wrote:
In India stupid security practices resulting in breaches are also classified as hacks and the idiots who walk into such machines are termed "hackers". They wouldn't qualify to wipe cds let alone "hack" a few lines of code.
But stupids also clame that calling these people as hackers is right, just because some one has started this trend off late.
Add to it some more stupids call them selfs as "certified ethical hackers ". as if there was some unethical hacking happening.
As pointed out by others, things aren't going to change in a hurry. So just correct anyone wrongly using the term and forget about it.
Yes totally agreed. People will take time to realise that the real meaning of hacking is nothing to do with computers as such and just like other bad but popular things,this will also change. I hope that responsible and knowledgable members will continue to do what JTD suggested and there are enough evidances of the real meaning of hacking.
There are any number of words that have a dict meaning exactly opposite of it's social meaning, and one does not get into a spat over it. eg. sophisticate - social meaning someone with style. Dict meaning someone indulging in deception / subterfuge.
No point endlessly arguing about third party idiocity. IMO anyone saying hack while implying crack is not worth even two words.
AGreed. As said before I hope this thread will soon come back to its original topic (if the hack for openoffice has not worked for some people).
happy hacking. Krishnakant.