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Anti Virus Software Break Ins
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Injured Person Gain Access
1,406 wordsSince the introduction of personal computers in the 1970 's, the art of computer hacking has grown along with changing roles of computers in society. Computers have taken over our lives. People could not function without them; our electricity is run by computers, the government could not function without computers, and there are many others. Hackers are people who illegally gain access to, and sometimes tamper with, information in a computer system. Due to recent media coverage and corporate int...
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2,157 wordsAs editor of the Jargon File, I often get email requests from enthusiastic network newbies asking (in effect) "how can I learn to be a wizard hacker?" . Oddly enough there don't seem to be any FAQs or Web documents that address this vital question, so here's mine. If you are reading a snapshot of this document offline, the current version lives at web The Jargon File contains a bunch of definitions of the term 'hacker', most having to do with technical adeptness and a delight in solving problems...
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2,198 words... le wearing a body cast. Besides, Unix is the operating system of the Internet. While you can learn to use the Internet without knowing Unix, you can't be an Internet hacker without understanding it. For this reason, the hacker culture today is pretty strongly Unix-centered. (This wasn't always true, and some old-time hackers aren't happy about it, but the symbiosis between Unix and the Internet has become strong enough that even Microsoft's muscle doesn't seem able to seriously dent it. ) So...
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1,226 wordsWhat do you think of when you hear the word hacker -- a leather-clad, mohammed, teenager with a malicious grin on his face just itching to destroy your computer? This is what the average person will picture in their head, but they fail to truly understand what it is that hackers do, and how it can actually be helpful to them. The reason this stereotype of hackers has not gone away is because the media shows only the bad. If a hacker has been stealing credit card numbers CNN reports it instantly,...
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870 wordsI went up to a college this summer to look around, see if it was where I wanted to go and whatnot. The guide asked me about my interests, and when I said computers, he started asking me about what systems I had, etc. And when all that was done, the first thing he asked me was "Are you a hacker?" Well, that question has been bugging me ever since. Just what exactly For those who don't know better, the news media (and even comic strips) have blown it way out of proportion... A hacker, by wrong-def...
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2,241 wordsDescribe a negative aspect of ICTs impact on the information society. Describe how ICT has brought this about and what society is has done in response to it. Abstract Hacking has been and still disease different societies suffer from. The essay aims to provide the reader with knowledge regarding the effects hacking caused to our society, and how the society responded and tried to solve or minimize those effects. Different issues regarding hacking are discussed, such as the motivations that were ...
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1,401 wordsHackers. You know them as gang kids with radiation tans caused by too many late nights in front of a computer screen. Evil beings who have the power to wipe out your credit rating, cancel your cable TV, raise your insurance premiums, and raid your social security pension. Individuals who always avert their eyes and mumble under their breath about black helicopters and CIA transmissions. Paranoid, social deviants who could start World War III from the privacy of their bedrooms. Or so the mainstre...
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Kevin Mitnick Material Wealth
1,971 wordsOver the years, to this date, the media has distorted the definition of a hacker. It has been morphed and demonized to someone who terrorizes cyberspace. However, the true hacker is someone who seeks knowledge and information. When hackers hack into systems or networks, it is to explore an operating system that is foreign to them. The younger generations have bred a new philosophy of hacking. Wannabe hackers who do not deserve the title hacker use simple utilities available over the Internet to ...
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The Great Prejudice Against Hackers
1,069 wordsThere is a great prejudice against hackers nowadays, mainly perpetrated by the media. This prejudice comes mainly from the misconception of who hackers really are. The media calls anyone who commits a computer crime a hacker. This is simply not the case. Hackers are the people who not only built the internet to what it is today, but also keep it going. Hackers made the Unix OS what it is today. Hackers fight computer crime, they combat computer stalkers. They write and fix software, patch up sec...
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Wall Street Journal Credit Card Fraud
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Shield Your Computer Motives And History Hackers
1,456 wordsHow to Shield Your Computer from Internet Crime When you connect to the Internet, you are allowing you computer to communicate with millions of people who are also on the Internet. Suddenly, your hard drive is fair game. Some people called by various names: hackers, whackers, crackers, and some other more colorful names if your data is being destroyed. These people make it their business to find and make use of exposed hard drives. Sometimes, they just take an innocent look around; sometimes the...
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Company New York Marx And Engels
871 wordsDevelopment of Communist Theory- If neither Marx or Engels never lived and written the books they did, former Soviet Union and China would probably be conducting their governmental systems in a different manner. Defined by Marx and Engels, the communist theory can be summed up in the single phrase: abolition of private property (Engels, Marx 80). Communists are distinguished by the lower working class which will rise to overthrow the higher supreme class (Engels, Marx 80). The second distinction...
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1,514 wordsIts the weekend, you have nothing to do so you decide to play around on your computer. You turn it on and then start up, you start calling people with your modem, connecting to another world, with people just like you at a button press away. This is all fine but what happens when you start getting into other peoples computer files. Then it becomes a crime, but what is a computer crime really, obviously it involves the use of a computer but what are these crimes. Well they are: Hacking, Phreaking...
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Macro Viruses Computer Viruses
3,088 wordsComputer Crime Its the weekend, you have nothing to do so you decide to play around on your computer. You turn it on and then start up, you start calling people with your modem, connecting to another world, with people just like you at a button press away. This is all fine but what happens when you start getting into other peoples computer files. Then it becomes a crime, but what is a computer crime really, obviously it involves the use of a computer but what are these crimes. Well they are: Hac...
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Bulletin Boards Industry Standard
3,510 wordsCopyright (c) Hugo Cornwall All rights reserved First published in Great Britain in 1985 by Century Communications Ltd Portland House, 12 - 13 Greek Street, London W 1 V 5 LE. Reprinted 1985 (four times) ISBN 0 7126 0650 5 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Billing &# 038; Sons Limited, Worcester. CONTENTS Introduction vii First Principles 2 Computer-to-computer communications 7 3 Hackers Equipment 15 4 Targets: What you can find on mainframes 30 5 Hackers Intelligence 42 6 Hackers Techniques...
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Open Source Software Frequently Asked Questions
4,338 wordsHow To Become A Hacker Why This Document? As editor of the Jargon File, I often get email requests from enthusiastic network newbies asking (in effect) how can I learn to be a wizard hacker? . Oddly enough there dont seem to be any FAQs or Web documents that address this vital question, so heres mine. If you are reading a snapshot of this document offline, the current version lives at web What Is A Hacker? The Jargon File contains a bunch of definitions of the term 'hacker, most having to do wit...
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1,231 wordsTo compare the political theories of two great philosophers of politics is to first examine each theory in depth. Plato is regarded by many experts as the first writer of political philosophy, and Aristotle is recognized as the first political scientist. These two men were great thinkers. They each had ideas of how to improve existing societies during their individual lifetimes. It is necessary to look at several areas of each theory to seek the difference in each. The main focus of Plato is a p...
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Kevin Mitnick Chat Rooms
1,544 wordsThe popular definition of a hacker has a negative connotation in todays society, but computer hackers arent criminals by their definition of the word. Their definition deals with how someone approaches an activity in life, not just when dealing with computers. Hackers feel a certain depth of commitment and an enhanced level of excitement at hacking a system. Hacking basically means learning all there is to know about a system, becoming immersed in the system to the point of distraction, and bein...
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Dark Ages Civil Servants
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