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Originally Posted by telkanuru People need to learn the difference between the typical "hacker" and "script kiddies".
Hacker- interested in information, testing systems and trying to crack them. The really good ones you never catch, so they obviously can't do stuff that particularly malicious to your computer.
Script kiddie- your average 13 (mental age, not physical) year old that just found out about sex, swearing, and the internet. Finds various pre-generated 'hacking' programs (ie. scripts) and uses them for evil and to feel like he's a big boy now. Also may be trolls, spawn campers, PK-ers. AKA: wastes of sperm. |
no no no no no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
there are THREE TYPE OF HACKERS.
White Hat- the kind you first identified.... the kind of people who are in it for a challenge, and if they find vulnerabilities, they're fairly likly to let you know, and let you know how to fix them. these are the "good guys"
Grey Hat- the people who find security holes, and give them to whoever the feel like-- both the people with the secutity holes and the people who want to exploit them.
Black Hat- these are the people who are the assholes, who make the word "hacker" a bad thing.... these are the people who find the vulnerablities, and pound them open with a sledgehammer.
of course, the "script kiddie" or "code kiddie" exists, and is mainly black hat......... but there are also white hat and grey hat code kiddies.....
I've dated a white hat linux user, a grey hat windows user..... and a black hat code kiddie mac user.....
we don't talk about the black hat kid anymore.
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