A person who is able to discover a weakness in a system and manages to exploit it is called a hacker and this process is known as Hacking. Hacking ...
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Read Wikipedia to learn more about Hackers, popular media describe hackers are those that hack into systems, but real hackers call them crackers. You can also find definition of hacker in Jargon File.
Don't try to crave for a more suitable synonym for your needs; as a cybersecurity professional, I know what the connotation of the above definition says.
Why can't you just read under the words? Go and have a try from the links you provided.
Cyber security professional !== hacker, you can work in cyber security and don't be a hacker. The same as you can be a hacker and don't work with cyber security.
Dude, check what your wiki link says. Look at the caution it gives. Please do your research before imposing your thoughts.
Also, I never said a cybersecurity professional == hacker.
I've wrote in first sentence:
Hacking is more then exploiting the system and finding weakness. Also I would call your description as the person that work in security (can be a hobby don't need to be paid work).
If you look at Wikipedia it say "security hacker" which probably what you mean. For instance I can hacking Lego and be called Lego hacker. Your description imply that hacker is only for computer systems you don't say that explicitly but you assume what other people will understand.
I know that Lego is the system and you can find the weakness of that system and do what the created never intent to do, but reading your whole article I don't have impression that you mean all the systems and not only computer systems.
Yup, now I got the point of whole conversation with you and the others 😅
Anyways, I missed that detail and subconsciously I think I thought it was obvious 🤔
I would like to point out such differences and make my article related to security hacker. Does that seems ok?
That would be great. Hacking and Hackers are so much wider terms and writing like Hacking is only about security don't give any favor to Hackers that don't do computer security.
There are great movies about Hackers that I recommend:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Wiz...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_Are_...
First is old, it feature Steve Woznak and Richard Stallman and second one is about hackers at Def Con conference.
Hacking is not someone who knows their way around the security flaws. I think you are confusing it with cracking -- those who crack the security system to exploit it. Hacking has never meant to exploit. Hacking is "playful cleverness" which may not even have anything to do with the computers.
You can think of hacking as jugaad, of how you can come up with something clever. Please consider reading the difference between hacker vs cracker, and the "hacker culture".
The word exploit means "to make full use of something". In the above description, I'm trying to make others understand that it is about finding new ways.
You call so-called playful cleverness might look fancy, but it is not how it actually plays in real-life cybersecurity operations. This article is for serious hacking certification seekers, not for movie dreamers.
"Hacker", and "hacking" are terms which have been used even before computers existed. "playful cleverness" is not my definition, that is how hacking is defined. However, over the course of years and decades, the people involved in cyber-security came and hijacked the word to use it for something it does not mean.
I am not to judge whom this article is for, but surely, it uses the word "hacking" incorrectly.
I still don't get your point. Hacker is actually a word used for computer parts thief; that is the actual truth.
Do you want me to use it?
You are just fawning on one of the many interpretations; ignore the fact you are a smart ass and accept the provisional truth. Don't play the game of words or synonyms.
I'm not here to debate a topic of the Origin of the Word Hacking or Hacker; I'm here to make others understand what textbooks, media, and in general, debates and workshops point out.
Yes, it is used that way, because mainstream media and perople involved in cyber security hijacked the word "hacker" to give it a pejorative connotation.
And unfortunately, neither textbook, mainstream media or people involved in cyber-security are interested referring things accurately. It is not a game of words or synonyms. Synonyms would mean two different words have same meaning. That isn't the case here.
What you refer to as hacking is actually cracking. It would be better to use "Security cracker" in this context, and it would be really great if you could also spare a couple of lines highlighting the difference between a hacker and a security cracker.
But again, it is your article, and your decision how you would like to use the words.
I describe what is hacking and the types of hackers in an easy way.