Hacking ( Dark Side Of The Technology ) by_r3v0lut10n

Hacking is an act of penetrating computer systems to gain knowledge about the system and how it works. This is considered illegal since it is like breaking into someone’s house. Hacking tends to be a misunderstood topic, and the media likes to sensationalize, which only exacerbates this condition. Changes in terminology have been mostly ineffective – what’s needed is a change in mind-set.

                  Engaging in any hacking activity without the explicit permission of the owner of the target you are attacking is a crime, whether you get caught or not. From everything discussed so far any benign reason whatsoever, but this is far from the truth. It is possible to engage in hacking for good reasons (for example, when a network owner contracts with a security professional to hack systems to uncover vulnerabilities that should be addressed).

                Hacking is an expression of our own curiosity, “how does it work?” , “why can’t I access it?”,” what happens if I give it 400 volts instead of 220?” it is simply the result of our drive to understand the things around us. Often people are curious about things which may cause them or others harm, such as a child curious about an electricity socket. This is no reason to discourage curiosity, the answer, as always, lies in education not restriction. Many of the greatest minds have simply been unsatisfied by the reality they see around them, and looked for ways to “hack” things to work in ways they want. Without their curiosity, and “hacking” skills, where would we have been?. Hacking constitutes a mind-set, not a skillset. It’s not a “job” it’s not something you do for a living. You may earn because of your skills as a hacker, but the hacker mindset is what makes a hacker. Like with anything else, you don’t start at the top, you are willing to learn and you poke at things to see where they go. Hacking has been so misrepresented in the mass media that people have had to coin another term “ethical hacking” just to be clear. What does it mean really? Simply that you are a curious person, who likes to mess about with things.

                The popular meaning of the term “ethical hacker” and the meaning you should derive from it whenever you hear it has to do with computer security.—a field where the term ethical is more significant than hacker. In terms of computer security, an ethical hacker is a penetration tester, someone who tries to find vulnerabilities in a system in order to fix them, rather than to profit from exploiting them.