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Am I at least proving that I have learned a bit more than these wanna-be script kiddie crackers?

A hacker is simply some one who makes something do something more than intended or do something that was not intended, I.E. drilling holes in a computer case to help with cooling. While this is not hacking in the sense that anyone thinks of it, it is the original definition. A cracker is someone who...

There is another group of people who loudly call themselves hackers, but aren't. These are people (mainly adolescent males) who get a kick out of breaking into computers and phreaking the phone system. Real hackers call these people ‘crackers’ and want nothing to do with them. Real hackers mostly t...