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Computer Hacking: Hackers
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Computer hacking is the practice of modifying computer hardware and software to accomplish a goal outside of the creator’s original purpose. People who engage in computer hacking activities are often called hackers. Since the word “hack” has long been used to describe someone who is incompetent at his/her profession, some hackers claim this term is offensive and fails to give appropriate recognition to their skills.
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Computer hacking always involves some sort of running a program on your computer system, which sometimes is a virus. Also the hacker can run a type of program on your computer that can get the information he wants from your computer. Some people believe that computer hacking is right if you don’t steal anything, don’t damage anything, and don’t access condifidential information. Did you know that true Computer Hackers have a Code Of Conduct!
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Computer security hackers are the opposite of the academic hacker in that these are exactly who companies are attempting to prevent. They work covertly forever attempting to conceal one's identity and enter another's database. Mostly such hackers are merely 'proving a point' by showing they are able to enter a system that they are not authorized to do so. This may be simply for the reason of impressing their fellow hacker counterparts. Others operate with the intention of severe criminal activity, perhaps entering a bank's highly secretive data system and transferring money out of one's account without even leaving their home PC. This action is just like physically robbing a bank though all performed through a computer. Thankfully examples such as this are becoming very infrequent as companies quickly improve their systems.
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Computer hackers reportedly penetrated and vandalized one of the US government's most popular Websites on Monday, denying visitors the ability to search for congressional information. The hackers altered the library's "Thomas" Website, a hot destination among journalists and researchers seeking immediate information on bills under consideration. The AP report said that the vandals claimed to be "four hackers from a little country in Europe," and changed the site to read: "U.S. Congress Web site - defeated!" The group ... published the formula they claimed to have used to penetrate the site, and left a software log that included part of a user's identification number, but it was partially masked, the report said. The attack follows intrusions last year against FBI, Senate, US Army and White House Websites.
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Since the mid-1980s, there are some overlaps in ideas and members with the computer security hacking community. The most prominent case is Robert T. Morris, who was a user of MIT-AI, yet wrote the Morris worm. The Jargon File hence calls him "a true hacker who blundered".[18] Nevertheless, members of the academic subculture have a tendency to look down on and disassociate from these overlaps. They commonly refer disparagingly to people in the computer security subculture as crackers, and refuse to accept any definition of hacker that encompasses such activities (see the Hacker definition controversy). The computer security hacking subculture on the other hand tends not to distinguish between the two subcultures as harshly, instead acknowledging that they have much in common including many members, political and social goals, and a love of learning about technology. They restrict the use of the term cracker to their categories of script kiddies and black hat hackers instead.
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JAPAN has called an emergency meeting today to boost computer security after humiliating raids on Government websites by hackers. The hackers linked one Government website to a pornographic site and attacked Japan's war record on another. The site at the Science and Technology Agency had been penetrated twice in two days, and key data on another site, including census information, had been erased. The hacking came just days after a Government meeting at which officials decided to bring Japan up to US standards of computer security by 2003 and to draw up a plan to fight cyber-terrorism by the end of this year. The newest hacker entry left a second message in Chinese - this time on the agency home page - and again assailed the stand by some ultra-rightist Japanese groups that the 1937 Nanjing massacre never happened, the Mainichi newspaper said. Chief government spokesman Mikio Aoki said on today several ministers would hold a meeting later in the day to discuss the hacker raids, which have made Japan's computer vulnerability painfully clear.
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