Hacking a Art
In today's fast-paced world, the high-tech computer industry offers a unique opportunity for high-paying jobs. Many people start their careers much younger than I have, so consequently I have to search for a career in a field that will offer me adequate financial rewards in a limited amount of time. I started working with computers four years ago, upgrading systems, and increasing modem speeds to enable me access to the World Wide Web. I find programming to be the most interesting area of Computer Science; there is a subculture within this area that call themselves hackers. There seems to be a negative connotation with the word hacker. This is a misunderstanding because these programmers, who consider themselves to be hackers, are not the evildoers that the media portrays them as. Some misguided souls do attack systems for profit and pleasure, but these are usually the wannabe hackers; they are referred to as crackers or cyberpunks. True hackers do not waste their time with these types of antics. It is similar to an artist who, instead of painting a beautiful picture, sprays profanity on a city wall. There are many misconceptions surrounding the artform of hacking.Computers have made our world and lives much easier.
In 1997, after discovering just how low his fellow Netizens could stoop, Valor made a vow to disrupt the online activities of kiddie porn peddlers in any way that he could--legal or not. Of course, it's highly unlikely that any child pornographer would cry foul to the authorities. And if someone were stupid enough to turn this Robin Hood-like figure in to the police, Valor says he's been assured by the Secret Service that they'd probably decline to take action on the matter. Valor's first target in his new crusade was an employee of Southwestern Bell. Although the perpetrator took numerous steps to cover his tracks, Valor was able to determine that this fellow was using his employer's computers as home base for his kiddie porn operation. Valor claims that several days after e-mailing the evidence to the president and network administrators at Southwestern Bell, he received a message back that the pornographer was no longer employed there. There are a bunch of definitions of the term "hacker", Most having to do with technical adeptness and a delight in solving problems and overcoming limits... There is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and networking wizards that traces its history back to the decades to the first time-sharing minicomputers and the earliest ARPAnet experiments. The members of this culture originated the term "hacker". Hackers built the Internet. Hackers made the UNIX operating system what it is today. Hackers run Usenet. Hackers make the World Wide Web work. If you are part of this culture, if you have contributed to it and other people in it know who you are and call you a hacker, you're a hacker (Raymond). Kim Kamondo elegantly explains it this way: Therefore, in my opinion hackers are unique problem solving individuals. In order to gain access to their culture, you can not just talk about hacking, or go in and ruin someone's computer system, database, or web page. Most access gained by true hacker goes totally unnoticed by the public. However, to the hacking community at large you are recognized. Hackers will not let posers waste their time, but they worshiped competence-- especially competence at hacking, but competence at anything is good. Hackers are naturally anti-authoritarian. Although they do help authorities capture criminals thru the Internet.
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Approximate Word count = 1674
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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