Whenever I hear the word "hacker" I always think of some computer genius or nerd who through his techy ways managed to get into someone else's computer system to wreak havoc.
I always thought a hacker could be someone who hacks into a government site, for example, and post false information. Or probably someone who would go into a social networking site of someone else to post malicious stuff or maybe even someone who would go into someone else's personal accounts to steal information or something else.
I learned through the video I watched though, that I had the wrong connotation of the word hacker all along and I was actually referring to a "cracker."
The RFC 1392: Internet Users' Glossary defines "hacker" as:
A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular.
Apparently, the hackers are the good guys while the crackers are actually the bad guys.
Crackers are people whose purpose is to break security measures for various purposes. They use their knowledge not for good reasons.
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