From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 2 6:22:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from trill.hh.se (trill.hh.se [194.47.5.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF5137BBFF for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 06:22:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from u98jobj@stud.hh.se) Received: from gs177 (gs177.gsten.hh.se [194.47.16.177]) by trill.hh.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA17227 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 15:22:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Joel_Bj=F6rk?= To: Subject: Re: Hacker vs Cracker was Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 15:22:44 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4029.2901 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hacker : someone "geeky" that do it to learn and experiment but without damaging. cracker: the same but with the plain intention to damage, destroy, etc. A cracker is also a person that is producing "warez" ie illegal versions of software. The term hack can also be used to describe a "temporary fix" to a program or a small program/script that does the job but not necesseraly in a good way. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message