History Hacker and Cracker

Hackers appeared in the early 1960s among the members of student organizations Tech Model Railroad Club in Artifisial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Student group is one of the pioneers of the development of computer technology and they operate with a number of mainframe computers. The word hacker first appeared with a positive sense to refer to a member who has expertise in the field of computers and able to make computer programs better than what has been designed together. Then in 1983, growing hacker analogy to refer to someone who has an obsession to understand and master the computer system. The problem, in that year for the first time the FBI arrested a criminal group of computers The 414s are based in Milwaukee USA. 414 is their local area code. The group that came to be called a hacker was convicted of burglary 60 computers, from computers owned by Cancer Center Memorial Sloan-Kettering's computer to Los Alamos National Laboratory. One of the perpetrators are getting immunity for TESTIMONIALS, while the other 5 players get probation sentence.

Then, further up other groups to mention themselves hackers, but it's not. They are (especially the men) who have the satisfaction of breaking through computer and phone-jockey (phreaking). True hackers call these people 'crackers' and do not like to hang out with them. True hackers crackers as people look lazy, not
responsible, and not too bright. Real hackers do not agree to say that with a person through the security has become a hacker.

The hackers meeting each year which is held once every mid-July in Las Vegas. A meeting of the world's largest hacker is called Def Con. Def Con event to event is more exchange of information and technology related to hacking activities.

Understanding Hacker and Cracker

1. Hacker

Hacker is the name for those who provide a useful contribution to the computer network, making a small program and share it with people on the Internet. For example: digigumi (Digital Group) is a group that specializes in the field of games and computers. This Digigumi hexadecimal engineering techniques to change the text contained in the game. For example, the game Chrono Trigger English language can be converted into Indonesian. Therefore, the status is Digigumi hackers, but not as a destroyer. Hacker here means, seek, learn and change things for hobbies and development by following the prescribed legal by game developers. Hackers usually do infiltration-infiltration with the intent to satisfy the knowledge and techniques. Average - the average company in the world of global networks (the Internet) also has a hacker. His job is to keep the network from possible destruction outsiders "crackers", the network testing of possible aperture into an opportunity of a cracker mengobrak - going through the network, for example: insurance companies and auditing "Price Waterhouse". He has a team of hackers called the Tiger Team. They work to test the security systems of their clients.

2. Cracker

Cracker is a term for those who go into someone else's system and crackers more destructive, usually on a computer network, bypassing passwords or licenses computer programs, intentionally against computer security, to deface (changing the web home page) belonged to someone else even to delete data to other people, steal data and generally do cracking for their own benefit, malice, or for any other reason because there are challenges. Some of the piercing done to show the security weaknesses of the system.

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