Prior to reading this chapter I thought that everyone who accessed computers illegally were hackers. That was an incorrect thought. A hacker is a person who breaks into a computer but does not intend harm. They usually do it for fun and curiosity. Unlike a hacker, the cracker, (sometimes called a black hat hacker) breaks into computers or networks to create havoc; destroy files, vandalism, credit card fraud, or other types of illegal activities. Another is script kiddie, they are usually the outcast of the hacker community, and they access network with prewritten hacking or cracking programs and they usually have little understanding and technical skills. The hacktivist uses website defacement to announce a political message. To the extreme hacktivism used for cyberterrorism.
So in the techie world there are social status also. I would say that hackers are on the top of the rung.
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