Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 16:49:57 +0100 From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: http://users.uk.freebsd.org/~juha/ Message-ID: <20020305164957.A91495@energyhq.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20020305154017.GB17913@genius.tao.org.uk>; from joe@tao.org.uk on Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 03:40:17PM %2B0000 References: <000c01c1c322$df0f22a0$0101a8c0@noc2> <20020304202541.U91555-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <20020305015104.GA40292@core.usrlib.org> <20020305114625.GA11426@raggedclown.net> <20020305144726.B89475@energyhq.homeip.net> <20020305154017.GB17913@genius.tao.org.uk>
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On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 03:40:17PM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > Cracker is nothing, just a stupid term made up by journalists and
> > clueless people like Suckomu Shimomura. ;-P
>
> A cracker is someone who breaks software security (usually on games).
Yeah, that's right. But in the unix world it doesn't really make sense.
Yes, Fravia's pages contain one or two essays where some unix is
involved (I remember FlexLM reverse engineering on HP-UX) but other than
that and a very minimal Linux cracking activity, I haven't seen many
cracking on unix systems.
As someone pointed out, in this particular case (attacking a freebsd.org
box), should be defined as the action of a script kiddiot. Calling
him/her a hacker would be offensive to real hackers :-)
Cheers,
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