Hacker - Categories of hacker

Hacker is a term used to describe people who create and modify computer software and computer hardware. Hacker has multiple meanings. In some programming communities, the term refers to people skilled in computer programming, administration and security with legitimate goals. The word is also used in a derogatory way in most communities to refer to someone who is relatively unskilled in programming. Most people in the popular media and some in the general population use the word hacker to mean what is called in most programming communities a cracker (from criminal hacker), that is, someone who par ...

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• Hacker - Hacker: Highly skilled programmer
• Hacker - Hacker: Hardware modifier
• Hacker - Recognized hackers
• Hacker - Recognized programmers
• Hacker - Security Experts
• Hacker - Hardware modifiers
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The hacker community (the set of people who would describe themselves as hackers, or who would be described by others as hackers) falls into at least four partially overlapping categories. Sometimes people in these categories are called a different name, such as "cracker" instead of hacker. Hacker - Hacker: Highly skilled programmer. The positive usage of hacker is one who knows a (sometimes specified) set of programming interfaces well enough to write software rapidly and expertly. This type of hac ...

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The hacker community (the set of people who would describe themselves as hackers, or who would be described by others as hackers) falls into at least four partially overlapping categories. Sometimes people in these categories are called a different name, such as "cracker" instead of hacker. Hacker - Hacker: Computer and network security. The negative usage of hacker is one who exploits systems or gains unauthorized access through clever tactics and detailed knowledge, that is, through the use of a h ...

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Hacker, Hacker - Categories of hacker, Hacker - Hacker: Computer and network security, Hacker - Hacker: Highly skilled programmer, Hacker - Hacker: Hardware modifier, Hacker - Recognized hackers, Hacker - Recognized programmers, Hacker - Security Experts, Hacker - Hardware modifiers, Hacker - Hacker media personalities, Hacker - Related books

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Due to the overlapping nature of the hacker concept space, many of these individuals could be included in more than one category. See also Hacker (computer security), which has a list of people in that category, including criminal and unethical hackers. Hacker - Recognized programmers. Linus Torvalds, who was a computer science student at the University of Helsinki when he began writing the Linux kernel in 1991. Mel Kaye, a near-legendary figure and the archetypal Real Programmer[ ...

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Hacker, Hacker - Definitions of hack, Hacker - Categories of hacker, Hacker - Hacker: Highly skilled programmer, Hacker - Hacker: Computer and network security, Hacker - Hacker: Hardware modifier, Hacker - Hacker stereotypes, Hacker - Recognized hackers, Hacker - Recognized programmers, Hacker - Security Experts, Hacker - Hardware modifiers, Hacker - Hacker media personalities, Hacker - Related books

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Due to the overlapping nature of the hacker concept space, many of these individuals could be included in more than one category. See also Hacker (computer security), which has a list of people in that category, including criminal and unethical hackers. Hacker - Recognized programmers. Mel Kaye — Near-legendary figure and the archetypal Real Programmer. He was credited with doing "the bulk of the programming" for the Royal McBee LGP-30 drum-memory computer in the 1950s. In the 1980s, Ed Nather, ano ...

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Hacker, Hacker - Categories of hacker, Hacker - Hacker: Computer and network security, Hacker - Hacker: Highly skilled programmer, Hacker - Hacker: Hardware modifier, Hacker - Recognized hackers, Hacker - Recognized programmers, Hacker - Security Experts, Hacker - Hardware modifiers, Hacker - Hacker media personalities, Hacker - Related books

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