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HackingRecently hacking has come to mean unauthorized access to data/information, to obtain or to modify it.Previously, it referred to many things, usually related to a style of working that is either very good or carried out in a spirit of experimentation, possibly originating at MIT, where "hacks" or clever pranks were carried out. When free software authors use the word, they usually mean the old meaning.
"exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness." A group known as the "Hacker Antidefamation League", wish to restore the old meaning to "hacking", preferring the word "cracking" to refer to unauthorised access.
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Since Hacking is the process of making a computer program work better, then any tools used by a system administrator or a computer programmer are part of the methods used by hackers.
NO hacker ever engages in unauthorized access, so any reputation they receive is based on a misunderstanding by the public that a person who understands the details about how a computer works will use that knowledge to break into other people's computers. This misunderstanding is spread by crackers calling themselves hackers, and the press perpetuating the term.
There have been many wonderful hacks, emacs is one example. I doubt many of them are famous, however, because noncomputer people rarely understand exactly what makes a hack famous. To be famous, a hack must show a high degree of novelty, as well as a deep understanding of the way computers work, and must be significantly more elegant than a kludge.
Definitely. The Morris Worm is famous, as the first worm that went out of control and slowed much of the Internet of its day to a crawl. It had no payload, but simply tried to reproduce, which it did in an uncontrollable manner.
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