subject: What is Hacking ? [print this page] What is Hacking ? What is Hacking ?
Ok, I Will Tell you what is , A Person withdrawing money from an ATM using theri card . A Person withdrawing money from an ATM using someone else's card without their permission is a thief. A person hacking into a computer to test its security is a hacker who is a security expert, A person hacking into a computer to steal passwords is a criminal And the person is accordingly lbellded a "Security expert" or "Criminal" ,but he is a hacker nonetheless.
A computer hacker is one who is curious about the working of computers and software.While many people are happy treating theri computer like black box.
Now who is hacker ? Don't like the way windows names shorcuts, hack the registry and change the way it works.Windows may not provide the facilty to do this, but that is no reason foru us to be limited to the way it works.Hacking constitues a mind set, not a skilled test.
We say Windows lot now linux ? fact is Linux is much easier to hack then windows, Yes Linux is much easier to hack than windows,but it is also considered more secure.When you look at hacking from the larger-sense perspectiver of messing with as system out of curisity,Linux allow you to do more.Linux is intentionally hack-able allowing each and every parameter to be changed by the user.You can create unique combination of application sets and features that the distribution creators never envisioned.With Linux you have access to nearly all the source code of the system on the other hand one would need to use third party tools,patch binaries change undocumentd registry settings, and even then the level of customizabilty would be much less.
