Hacker

hacker
[originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe]
1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.
2. A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular.
3. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming.
4. A person capable of appreciating hack value.
5. A person who is good at programming quickly.
6. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in ‘a Unix hacker’. (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.)
7. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy hacker, for example.
8. One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations.
9. [deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence password hacker, network hacker. The correct term for this sense is cracker.

31337 pwn

What's funny about that post. . .

well I won't even go into that one. . .

How about do you even know what 31337 is?

What's the point of this thread?

Paul wrote:What's funny about that post. . .

well I won't even go into that one. . .

How about do you even know what 31337 is?

`/0[_] [{^0\/\/ 1337?

lol just trying to be anoying again

eleet

Do you consider yourself 1337 or 31337 any of you?



PS: the reason for this thread is the definition of the word hacker. . .

I consider myself an Annie.

i was just beig anoyying and posting randum stuff

annie was struggling to reat her pdfs of halo

Batguano wrote:

Paul wrote:What's funny about that post. . .

well I won't even go into that one. . .

How about do you even know what 31337 is?

`/0[_] [{^0\/\/ 1337?

Well, I do. . .

I concur with Pauls definition.

it's funny how i find that many if not all of those apply to me

Same but why is 9 deprecated?

Not sure, that definition is from http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/ancient/whatismacosx/tools_hacker.html

Maybe because nobody bothers to hack macs?

Unchained wrote:Maybe because nobody bothers to hack macs?

Even hackers hate macs so much that they won't bother coding for it.

Actually, I think that it may be because that definition was older, but more current than furniture maker definition, and referred to non-computer things, perhaps the reason that the word came to it's more current usage. It does say that the correct term for that is 'cracker' and I know 'cracker' is used to refer to what that definition would have it refer to in a computer sense. Or rather 'crackers' is the correct term for what most people call 'hackers.'

Just sayin'.

(I did not take this picture)

Only white people can be hackers? Haha jk but I got it now, its because the term has been replaced by "cracker"

so fucking racist

I love how you think that delicious snack foods are racially offensive.
Anyway, Brad, you're just as light-skinned as I am.

It's interesting that often (probably always) a cracker will call himself a hacker and hackers will resent it.

Yeah. I remember when hacker used to be a good, complimenting term. (Ok, no I don't, but it once was.)