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South African Hacker History
A brief history of Hacker (computer security), computer hacking in South Africa. Note: A distinction needs to be made between a "White hat (computer security), white hat" hacker who hacks out of intellectual curiosity, and a "Black hat hacking, black hat" hacker who has ulterior motives. In recent times there has been an attempt to restore the meaning of the term hacker, which is still associated with creating code, and its secondary meaning, which has become the stuff of Cinema of the United States, Hollywood legend. The term "cracker" is a better description for those who break into secured system by exploiting Vulnerability (computing), computer vulnerabilities. 1990 Activists are trapped by BOSS agents who use Automated Teller Machine Communication Security, ATM autotellers to monitor transactions. IBM is now the subject of an ongoing court case for its active support of the apartheid regime. 1991 Cape Educational Computer Society (CECS) becomes the first to advocate free s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hacker (computer Security)
A security hacker is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, information gathering, challenge, recreation, or evaluation of a system weaknesses to assist in formulating defenses against potential hackers. The subculture that has evolved around hackers is often referred to as the "computer underground". Longstanding controversy surrounds the meaning of the term "hacker." In this controversy, computer programmers reclaim the term ''hacker'', arguing that it refers simply to someone with an advanced understanding of computers and computer networks and that ''cracker'' is the more appropriate term for those who break into computers, whether computer criminals ( black hats) or computer security experts ( white hats). A 2014 article noted that "the black-hat meaning still prevails among the general public". History Birth of subcult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
