Hacker or Cracker

Hacker any posts in Eric Steven Raymond is "there is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and networking that Wizards Trough its history back decades to the firs time-sharing minicomputers and the earliesr ARPAnet experiment"

In other words, Raymon said, "the members of this culture originated the term 'hacker'." The hacker and then introduce the internet, create programs to UNIX operating systems can be used at this time. And the hackers are the ones who have been meritorious in the World Wide Web so that it can be enjoyed by all people around the world anywhere in the home he was connected to the internet.

More Raymon says "if you are on this community and if you have distribution inside, and then people recognize you as a hacker, then you are a hacker."

Overview of the views we can Raymon that one definition of a hacker are not evil as we think about this. Yes, if they can enter into our computer (through the Internet) because they can take in knowledge. However, if there are people who enter illegally and then into our computer and then "steal and make random" our data, they are a cracker. And they can be a hacker in the world of difference. With the line, they are all experts in information technology, and working seriously on.

However, to avoid confusion, a key word in this problem, according to Raymon is the difference between them; a Hacker is one who built the system, while even a cracker "destroy". (How to become a hacker, Eric S. Raymond, 2001).

When a hacker term trend as a crime that frightening? Not because "sin" in the hollywood film expert deflect the term hacker and cracker this. Many of the themes the film hackers in the form of a "crushing system information" that should be applied to the meaning of a cracker.

A film such as the Net (1995), Take Down (1999). Movies are the theme for his hacker cracker.

And interpretation of mistake before, until now the term hacker is still dibiaskan with the term cracker. Confusion is not only happening in Indonesia alone, even outside negeripun the views of both the same as that.

Term hackers appear in the early 1960s among members of the student organization's Tech Model Railroad club in artificial Intelligence Lab Masschusetts Institute of technology (MIT). The term hacker was initially positive to mention means a member who has expertise in the field of computers and able to make progranm computer with better rather than the previous (Understand characteristics Hacker Community: Case Study on the Indonesia Hacker Community, Donny BU, M. Si)

BECOME A Hacker

Perhaps a glimpse of the definition above is enough to restrict far the role of a hacker and cracker that. This will not lift the hacker and the early history began guilty. But more on drip difficult if we learn how to become hackers. Or more specific, we can become a hacker?

In any posts How to Become a Hacker, Eric Steven Raymon said that a hacker is not easy the suspected. The first step to becoming a hacker must take a minimum of 5 existing programming languages. He mentions programming languages C / C + +, Java, Perl, Python & LISP. In addition, the program is able to interact with the HTML to be able to build a communication network with the Internet. Above all the basic science that is "mandatory" if we owned the interest to become a hacker sincere. Because basically a Hacker is the mastery of reading and writing code.

What code? Because the computer that we run every day at its core is comprised of different code instructions quite complex.

In addition to control over the programming language, we must also have adequate provision in the English language to be able to exchange thoughts with the hacker community from around the world. This is not prohibited because, in general, they (community members) have a code of ethics apart on open-source code or program that can open and processed especial by others. Example, the code in Linux that flare introduce recently has the concept of open source and therefore can be owned by the public as free software.

Back on the issues above, to be a hacker for the purpose of sharing knowledge in information technology, or in a wider sense to facilitate the computer in the future, it should not be scared. Instead, knowledge must be translated and equally so dug into the terintegral in the Lika-coil cyber world. Provided that we are not stuck on the negative behavior so that to be a cracker sitem break the secret of others.

START A Struggle

When we intend themselves to be more familiar with the hacker world, then some provision other than those mentioned above, the control of programming languages, html and the English language, seems intent also must be equipped with a basic attitude and orientation of our initial goal to become a hacker. Instead of being an expert is good programming, even if not properly be stuck on the negativ behavior that is not only harming people but boomerang. I wonder, if just in case you become a cracker and you are like other people to open the secret, then, do not hope that you can easily walk to other countries. Because, said several sources, your name is on the "black list" as cyber criminals?

On the side of this interesting to see in one hand, we need a sophisticated technology that often appear in seconds, the other side is stuck on worry fear pattern "wrong" that result in Patal. However, as a gesture, we stand on the agreement, that learning languages is offered by Eric Steven Raymon above, is a good thing. Because the find, at least we can get a solution to make the program useful for other people. And if this is done, believe, you are a hacker.