Ever since I began to have contact with the cyberspace (1995), the term was listened to hacker, and when it asked that it meant this, the answers were: “They are types that do not have another thing that to do, more than to enter your PC to rob your information and to burst your system”; or “they are adolescents who in front of spend their PC day and night, in search of things that can rob of the
network for own benefit”, another one of the answers was: “they are fanatical of the
computers that they look for to filter in the enterprise networks, for them this is a challenge”.
In that time it worked for a supplier of Internet, and in agreement I was acquiring experience and learning diverse tricks and techniques, I began to ask it self if
hacker they were as bad as it was said or simply they were people eager for knowledge.
A definition that occurred of hacker in that time was: “he is that, with ample computer
science knowledge,
able to take a walk to its wide ones by remote hard disks harming all type of security doors”.
However also it was attributed to that they touched the computers, but of equal way the peculiar ones, that they investigate, they study and they prove programs or equipment; that is to say, that they want to
know more than to only know like extinguishing and catching the computer. Then if we followed with this; Bill Gates, Steve Job y Steve Wozniack (to mention to some) they were to hacker, first because it made the first operating system that fitted in a diskette (MS-DOS) and the seconds have designed the first computer for the rest of the mortals who did not have computer science knowledge) (Apple). Or that says to me of the inventor of protocol TCP/IP, even the technicians which they fix the equipment are to hacker, since to be able to repair something, must have so much knowing; electrical,
electronic and mechanical and most of them they do it because they like their work and they pay to them to do something that they like.
These people are equipped with two things, patience and perseverance, since this is question to be hours before the computer to be able to dominate them in all the aspects. Now we are going to see as to the diverse tribes or clans divide themselves.
Although this article is old, has use in the present world, since she is one of the most complete lists of the clans that exist in the network or the cibersociedad, as it is denominated to him. Here we will see who is the one who.
Hacker. He is a person who looks for knowledge, that she proves and she modifies everything what falls in its hands. It is divided in two types the one that practice with the computers and the hardware to hacker that it does with the electronics, although also know each computer science and electronic end, that is to say.
Cracker. These yes is destructive, or electronic or computer science they do it only by pleasing, they never have sufficient and always they try to demonstrate the world that knows more than nobody.
Gurus. They are the teachers, they form to the new ones to hacker, and give tracks them so that they learn by their account. No longer is he active, but it continues acquiring knowledge for its satisfaction.
To lick. They are a danger, since they do not have knowledge, looks for in the sweepings of the network programs that do not know nor so that are, and if by chance it gets to fall in its hands, a generating program of virus sends, really give it pity.
Copyhackers. They are thieves, obtains what it interests to them and later they sell it to people without scruples who deal it in the network, gain the bread, not with the sweat of its front, but with the sweat of the one of opposite.
Buccaneers. They are beings that do not exist in the network, do not have knowledge some, but they know of businesses, it buys the one of copyhackers, and they sell it with a commercial name.
Newbie. He is a beginner, their learning begins trying to be introduced to the systems, in occasions it achieves its made, and it is not dangerous.
Pirates. They do not contribute anything, the only thing that does in copying programs and selling them, are most dangerous for the author rights.
Phrakers. They know the telephony as the palm of their hand, they cause to damage in the wire net by means of boxes that have created, who does not remember the famous blue box that stopped the accountant of the power station, which allowed making gratuitous calls? At the present time prepayment cards clone and they always operate from telephones public or moving bodies.
These are the known clans more (or at least, which has been able to identify more clearly) to date, it can that in the cibersociedad some have evolved and other disappear. It is even possible that some of the most experienced are now serving like advisers of computer science security in some company, government or beyond our knowledge.
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