[169719] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Mar 13 10:14:58 2014
To: "Sholes, Joshua" <Joshua_Sholes@cable.comcast.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:22:40 -0000."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:13:52 -0400
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:22:40 -0000, "Sholes, Joshua" said:
> If one came up in this field with a mentor who was old school, or if one
> is old school oneself, one tends use the original (as I understand it)
> definitions--a "cracker" breaks security or obtains data unlawfully, a
> "hacker" is someone who likes ethically playing (in the "joyful
> exploration" sense) with complicated systems.
For the old-schoolers, a "cracker" would violate the CFAA to get into a system.
A hacker would produce a long list of ways to get in without violating the CFAA.
Unfortunately, we no longer have a well-established word for the latter
class of people.
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