Hello Cristoph! On Friday 01 June 2001 13:24, Peer-Christoph Mettelem wrote:
Hi,
don't get me wrong, but in my opinion you wrote something wrong: A Hacker doesn't sell illegal copies of software. I think that it's a pity that so many people mix up the meaning of hacker and cracker. In short: hackers are the good ones, crackers are the bad ones. So, if you want to gete illegal software (warez) you goto a cracker. If it'S something about security then you got to a hacker. I really hate, that even in tv crackers were called hackers. There are much more infos about that on the web.
Indeed. It really made me mad watching "Who wants to be a millionaire" that day they asked the contestant the following question: "How do we call people, breaking into computers and causing damage". Maybe this isn't the best translation but ok, You got the point ;-). Well, here goes the answers: a) Broker b) Joker c) Hacker d) Darker. Duh. I wish the contestand called me up for some help :-)