What is a hacker?

There are hundreds of definitions of hackers, crackers, phreaks, script kiddies, and any other name use to social classify those that live, work, and play in the underground. Just like punk, goth, jock, and emo, these classifications are used by the general public to put a state of thought into a neat little box so that the moral majority can better understand that which they have no real interest in than to bash it or to say how wrong it may or may not be. Some say a hacker is someone that obtains access to a system without authorization for no other reason than to gain knowledge and to know they can do it.

A cracker to most is a hacker that destroys everything they can possibly get their hands on. Phreaks are hackers but uses telephony as their playground. A script kiddy would be a person that uses scripts that hackers write to easier gain access to systems using the exploits they have previously found without the wanting or need to actually learn how and why it works. Those are all definitions that I just came up with off the top of my head.

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