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The Seven Types of Hackers
Bruce Schneier's blog links to a nifty article listing the
seven types of malicious hackers. The list is: Cyber criminals;
Spammers and adware spreaders; Advanced persistent threat (APT) agents;
Corporate spies;
Hactivists;
Cyber warriors;
and Rogue hackers.
Script kiddies. (They believe they are hackers)\
The real pros. (The ones you never hear about)
Probably some others.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
They all think they're the "good" kind.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
I always considered myself a hacker in its original sense. Someone who modded an existing piece of hardware or software to suit their needs, or to work around an existing issue. My latest and most simplest "hack" is getting Froyo on my phone, since my carrier wouldn't send the update. Where am I on the list? Certainly not Hackivist. I guess I am now a "modder" or "homebrewer". I am afraid that the previous terms will be added to the hacker list, with the word criminal added in front.
"Ones and zeros were everywhere. I even think I saw a two!" - Bender
8) Website devs who force simple articles to split unnecessarily across multiple webpages. They're in it for clicks and ad revenue, essentially scamming multiple banner-ad buyers into paying for the same article read. Here's an example.
Does Rogue Hackers include all the roguelikes such as Net Hackers, Moria Hackers and Angband Hackers?
mod me funny
If they're conflating Wikileaks with hackers, then it's pretty clear to me that they either don't know what hackers are, don't know what Wikileaks is, or are riding the Wikileaks-hater bandwagon.
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I don't remember where I originally heard this, known it for years, so sorry to the source.
From the article:
I'll grant that Wikileaks are activists. I'll also grant that they have some great hackers working for them. But what the article describes as "hacktivism" is not what wikileaks does. Wikileaks employs hackers defensively, to provide a secure system that guarantees anonymity for the sources who leak information to them.
Although there have been allegations made in the press by people who probably don't know anything about information security, I have seen no evidence that suggests that Wikileaks obtains information by cracking into systems. On the contrary, Wikileaks have always claimed to work by receiving information from sources who were privileged with access to the information, and who elected to leak it to Wikileaks out of duty to their conscience.
There has been, to date, no evidence brought forward which suggests that Wikileaks has ever broken into a system to extract information out of it. That isn't the way they do things.
There are "hacktivists" who do things like deface websites in order to publicize a cause, or DDoS attack some target that they disagree with. But that is not what Wikileaks does, either. Misguided sympathizers from "Anonymous" may have done some of these things in an attempt to aid Wikileaks, but that is still not something that Wikileaks does or endorses.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Um, if you think that a buffer overflow is supposed to defend you, then you're even more wrong.
Script kiddies.
The Can't-Somebody-Else-Code-It? Hacker
"There's a hack for that."
The seven types of useless speculation-based throwaway tech articles:
1) Those that try to classify things
2) Those that list traits of things or people
3) Those that troll-bait old tech holy wars
4) Those that recycle old ideas as new and revolutionary
5) Dups from this-day-last-year because the byline didn't display the year
6) Shameless FUD
7) Those that ego-stroke the intended audience by telling them how unique they are.
Someone had to do it.
The buffer overflow is there to offset the adjacent buffer underrun. It is a very delicate system.
Sidenote: Slashdot's css has fucked up OL. Another entry for my user style. Great job, Slashdot. Great job.
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i just clicked the server, then hit his firewall and crashed his computer.
All cows eat grass!
It says "Your guide to the seven types of malicious hackers"
Please note the word malicious
There are many more types of hackers, which are not malicious at all.
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