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The World of Computer Hacking. The World of Computer Hacking Computer hacking
isn’t something you here about everyday on the news. ... What are hacking programs? ...
Hacking Defined. A. What is hacking? Hacking is the act of penetrating computer
systems to gain knowledge about the system and how it works. ...
Computer hacking. Computer ... released. Classification of hacking The hacking can
be classified into two types mainly in terms of purposes. ...
Hacking as it really is! ... Tthere are 3 main that people want to hack , 1) Hacking
emails : this is one of the things that the people always want to do . ...
Ethical Computer Hacking. ... With technology reaching a peak of use by the world today,
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Definition of hacking
(Computers) To program (a computer) for pleasure or
compulsively; especially, to try to defeat the security
systems and gain unauthorized access to a computer
hacking definition The computer ethicist Duncan Langford views hacking as an emotive term. He states that back in the 1960s and 1970s hacking was used to describe an individual working with computers who was technically gifted. In these infant times for computing there was perceived to be no implication that someone known as a computer hacker would act illegally. However, the social and computing environment has greatly changed since, and as tends to be with language, the use of the term hacker ‘expanded and its definition broadened’.
Langford (1995) argues that despite historical claims his definition of hacking is
‘obtaining and exploiting unofficial access to a computer system’
In one sense it's silly to argue about the ``true'' meaning of a word. A word means whatever people use it to mean. I am not the Academie Française; I can't force Newsweek to use the word ``hacker'' according to my official definition.
Still, understanding the etymological history of the word ``hacker'' may help in understanding the current social situation.
The concept of hacking entered the computer culture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1960s. Popular opinion at MIT posited that there are two kinds of students, tools and hackers. A ``tool'' is someone who attends class regularly, is always to be found in the library when no class is meeting, and gets straight As. A ``hacker'' is the opposite: someone who never goes to class, who in fact sleeps all day, and who spends the night pursuing recreational activities rather than studying. There was thought to be no middle ground.
What does this have to do with computers? Originally, nothing. But there are standards for...
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