Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> On 16/03/2012 12:54 PM, Francois Labreque wrote:

> > Yup, a bunch of 14 year olds in their mom's basements who want to be
> > hackers without knowing the first thing about it.

> Required CAD quote: http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20030606

  OTOH, how do you define "hacking"?

  Is, for example, reverse-engineering a proprietary file format and writing
a reader library for it "hacking"?

  Is disassembling an executable and making a modification to it "hacking"?

  Is running a port scanner and finding a security vulnerability in a
remote system (but without actually knowing how the scanner is doing it)
"hacking"?

  Is deciphering the data transfer format of a poorly programmed browser
game in order to send bogus high scores "hacking"?

  Is configuring a unix system to support an obscure device "hacking"?

  Is fixing someone's PC by running scandisk "hacking"?

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