What is Hacking?

Early Days

A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal working of a system,computers and computers networks in particular

RFC1389

Tech Model Railroad Club @ MIT

Detailed in Steven Levy's book Hackers

Morphing

Robert T Morris - Morris Worm in 1988

Kevin Mitnick - Various acts of computer crime over decades

War Games

Hackers

Matrix movies (use of nmap)

Sneakers

Swordfish

NCIS (regularly crack complex crypro in minutes)

What is hacking, REALLY?

Deep Understanding

Exploration

Joy of learning new things

Digging into problems to find solutions

Sometimes finding problems where there weren't problems previously

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