How Crackers View Themselves

prostoalex writes "Dr. Orly Turgeman Goldschmidt from Hebrew University of Jerusalem conducted a research to figure out if there any any differences between the classic computer vandal stereotypes and the real life. After surveying 54 Israeli repondents and using the term hacker gratuitously, Goldshmidt found out many computer vandals to be "young, well-educated men without a criminal record, who belong to the middle or upper class." 3 out of 54 respondents were women, some of the respondents were married and had children. Goldschmidt's survey seemed to include somewhat low-life representatives of computer security community, the type who goes on shopping sprees on stolen credit cards, so take the findings with a grain of salt."

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Webcams

[PFactor]

Crackers 0wn your webcam server, then redirect from their own webcam. This is how they 'view themselves'.

Matrix-ulation

[Space cowboy]

All crackers view themselves as Neo, these days ... Apart from the female ones, who view themselves as Trinity. All the male crackers of course assume that all the female crackers are male too...

Simon

Re:I'm Getting Sick of This

[TopShelf]

On the contrary, Kernel Crackers sounds like a snack they should sell over at ThinkGeek...

Something like a combination cracker/pretzel/pizza flavor, heavily fortified with caffeine and vitamins so you don't have to leave your workstation for days at a time!

query

[Anonymous Coward]

...so take the findings with a grain of salt.

Is this some obscure joke about salted crackers?

Translation Error?

[oni]

Well, the original article is in Hebrew. Right? So maybe something was lost in translation. Maybe "When you crack a code, it gives you an amazing feeling" started out in Hebrew as "smashing a variable stack by overflowing an input buffer on an exposed port and injecting arbitrary code thereby gaining remote root access on the machine really gives you an amazing feeling."

Or not.

Re:I'm Getting Sick of This

[karnal]

Actually, Kernel Crackers sounds like some KFC that's gone horribly, horribly wrong....

Re:I'm Getting Sick of This

[p00ya]

`Nerd' works.

Finding a date.

[blanks]

"3 out of 54 respondents were women"

I don't like those odds.

How Crackers View Themselves

[artemis67]

In my experience, crackers view themselves as golden brown and delicious, especially with a slice of cheese on top of them and some wine to wash it down.

However, it's been a while since I talked to a cracker, so things may have changed.

Re:Brazil leads major hacker attacks

[Dave2 Wickham]

You're asking us to take a site called "Secure Synergy" seriously?

Matrix meet-up gone horribly wrong

[Dogtanian]

Somewhere in the 'real' Real World.

Two hackers, uh, I mean crackers, erm... dammit! Two geeks meet in person for the first time.

Neo1337357: Trinity? [Blah... something about a bank IIRC, I can count the number of times I've seen The Matrix on two hands] I..... thought you were a girl.
Trinity9348: Most guys do.

'Neo' becomes very uncomfortable as he realises he is standing in an S&M club with a large, sweaty guy he has shared his most intimate fantasies with.

Somewhere in the background a Rob Zombie track is playing. Fade to black.