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"Hacker" is a bit like the term "witch" in the Wizard of Oz. "Are you a good hacker, or a bad hacker?" The techniques and thinking styles are the same, either way.
I don't think there's a script-kiddie equivalent for phone systems.
"Hacker" is a bit like the term "witch" in the Wizard of Oz. "Are you a good hacker, or a bad hacker?" The techniques and thinking styles are the same, either way.
Decades ago to crack into a computer you needed to be a hacker, since computers were all different. Today we have "script kiddies" who most definitely aren't hackers, but are crackers. I don't think there's a script-kiddie equivalent for phone systems.
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Decades ago to crack into a computer you needed to be a hacker, since computers were all different. Today we have "script kiddies" who most definitely aren't hackers, but are crackers. I don't think there's a script-kiddie equivalent for phone systems.
I thought the original hackers were almost exclusively using AT&T's system.
To paraphrase John Draper (aka Captain Crunch), "A system is a system, whether a phone network or a computer."
It's like a disease endemic to us nerds. Honestly who looks at the word "hack" and thinks hey i'm gonna make a white hat form of this? An OS called GNU?? Linus was lucky he had a buddy in marketing to help him name the kernel otherwise we'd have something like the clusterfuck in gnome & kde packages.
hahahah. Exactly. Specifically, Linus' name for Linux was "Freax"
By himself he referred to it as "Linux" but thought it was lame. Only after the name being suggested by others did he agree. I got this "first-hand" from Revolution OS ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_OS You can watch it here ~ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409
Earlier quoted context omitted.
hahahah. Exactly. Specifically, Linus' name for Linux was "Freax"
"... Linus' name for Linux was "Freax" ..." By himself he referred to it as "Linux" but thought it was lame. Only after the name being suggested by others did he agree. I got this "first-hand" from Revolution OS ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_OS You can watch it here ~ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409