Hackers (9.nädal)

 Hackers. For many, these people are mystical personalities, hacking the system and going against the law. In the majority this opinion has developed due to the many films shot on this topic. Eric S. Raymond is trying to refute this opinion. In his article, Eric S. Raymondi tries to explain to people who actually are hackers in their own opinion and how they differ from crackers (burglars).

Initially, hackers called programmers, who corrected errors in software in any fast or elegant way. According to Raymond, hackers live according to a certain ideology and rules. These are people who can appreciate and understand hacker values. Crackers in his opinion is a completely different group of people having nothing to do with real hackers. Raymond says: hackers - build, crackers - break.Despite all the words of Raymond, I believe that it does not matter who you think yourself and call hackers in their understanding. It so happened that the name of things is given by society and not by a small group of people. If the majority decided that the grass is green, then it will be green, if the majority decided that a person capable of hacking a defense and stealing data - a hacker, then so be it. People do not like to think and analyze much that they do not understand, and therefore it's easiest to call things by the names that most people used to call them.

 I myself, am not a hacker or cracker, but sometimes I use programs to crack any other programs. In my understanding, hackers are people able to bypass the system, look for errors or vice versa to correct them. In turn, hackers are divided into "White Hat", "Black Hat" and "Gray hat". Black hats are called cyber-criminals, while white hats are used by other information security specialists (in particular specialists working in large IT companies) or researchers of IT systems that do not violate the law. In cases, for example, minor violations of the law or absence of violations of the law, but the violation of the internal rules of an Internet service can be used the term Gray Hat. For me, a hacker is a person with certain skills in the IT field, able to find loopholes in the code and can use them to obtain either personal or public benefits.Proceeding from the above, I can say with confidence that hackers are also engines of progress that make information technology develop at an accelerated pace. Hackers do not allow to monopolize various kinds of projects, crack security and transfer materials to society, forcing companies to come up with new product and protection options. Also, I do not consider hackers to be bad people, perhaps because I have never encountered the consequences of their work and have received no moral, physical or financial harm on their part.Maybe someday my opinion will change, or maybe I will become a hacker ... who knows ...