Question

can some one told me about hacking

Answer 1

Hacking, the original term, comes from a combination of two sources. Both were using the term before computers and it is unclear which, if either, had more influence on the term. One was hack writing for a news paper, which was writing without the facts. The other was an amateur radio hacker, who modified commercial equipment for his own use. In the original programming days you used lookup tables to know how to punch the machine code onto a tape or card. When a person could do this without the tables, it was said they were hack writing a program. And when computers came out, many of those amateur radio operators got into them and started modifying commercial hardware and even software for their own use. In fact, they were many of the first personal owners of computers by buying kits and doing all the soldering themselves! These two sources bled back into the world of computers as the term hacker: A person that knows software so intimately that can write or modify it with ease.

How the term became misconceived by the public is simple. It was traced back to one of the original security breaches. I can't remember where it was, but I remember the news was about some teens that broke into the school computers and changed their grades. The breaking of security and those that did it were known as crackers, probably because it sounded a lot like hacker. However, cracker had a VERY different connotation in Dominant American Culture. It is a derogatory term that came out of the same era if racial animosity that created what we now call the "N word." So the news papers looked for another word they could use and chose hacker. This story got picked up by the AP Wire and went nation wide, perhaps even worldwide, because it was the first time ever this had happened. This changed the public perception of hacking while the people in the know rejected this new use.

The new use of hacking, as breaking security, became more widely used when the next generation picked up the common use. The term was on their parents lips! "Don't you dare do any hacking on our home computer!" Well... that is the perfect way to get a teen to look into hacking. Forbidden fruit.

Thus, hacking became something different for a time.

The original meaning was rediscovered as the old adherents stuck with it. The latest and third overall meaning of hacker and hacking is somewhere between the two. It has become a person with a great deal of skill in computers who may or may not be using that skill for nefarious purposes, but it is generally assumed they are doing at least some questionable things.

Answer 2

can you told me how to be a hacker??

Answer 3

Learn lots and lots about computers and the inner most parts of how they work. For example, if you know C, C++, and Assembly, you can read and understand "The Rootkit Arsenal: Escape and Evasion in the Dark Corners of the System" by Bill Blunden. But if you are not willing to basically become a computer scientist, you will never learn enough to hack anything.

Answer 4

Well it's illegal really, I'd prefer you didn't ask about such questions here nor anywhere else.
Please refrain from doing so.

Regards,
- Skai

Answer 5

Hi! I was interested in this while I was at Barnes and Nobles (the book store) once. So I picked up a book and read about it.

Even in school, I learned about ethical hacking.

What I understand is that ethical hacking is using all your computer knowledge to try to break a program - or enable an unintended consequence of originally poor programming.

This does two things:
1. Helps the hacker learn by experience
2. Finds flaws in code before others can exploit those flaws.

Hacking is probably a legal job, where hackers can be hired to test certain software.

And, of course, there is the negative connotation that comes from unwanted hacking (for whatever reason).

I'm hoping someone can validate that, but that's what I understood from courses and reading material.

Answer 6

@SkyCuboid "Well it's illegal really, I'd prefer you didn't ask about such questions here nor anywhere else." That is not true.

There are laws about breaking security. There are laws about using computers to assist in other crimes. However, there are no laws about "hacking" because it is a poorly defined term. For example, a German law that made "hacking tools" illegal was thrown out because this also covers standard security and quality assurance programs used to validly monitor the internal traffic of a company.

Theft is illegal. Unauthorized use of a computer, even if done remotely, is illegal, but these things are not hacking. They may be done by people claiming to be hackers, and they may even be hackers, but those actions do not encompass or define the term.

And there is the point @theEric makes too. Hacking is a standard and taught part of the diagnostic process. This is trying to break a program to help make it better. All very legal and performed in every major programming company in the world.

Saying that hacking is illegal is like saying knives are illegal. The truth is, certain types of knives are illegal and certain uses of knives, like murder, are illegal. But knives in general, and hacking in general, are legal.

Answer 7

Well, the usage of the word has evolved from bad to good. We are "hacking education". OR Palo Alto "Hacking for Good" day. It really means coming up with crafty, creative solutions to old problems or established problems.

Answer 8

@Preetha EXACTLY! It is more like the original meaning in computers than it has been in a long time. Some negative connotation still exists in some quarters, but the core of using an intimate knowledge to create a crafty solution has been returned to the term!

Answer 9

i've asked this question not long ago... and have read it quite some times so far...
the if you ask, How to become a hacker after watching Die Hard 4... well it's simply not what you're gonna get.
Hacking is not a profession, it is a stage. It is the highest stage of being a master on something, let it be, computers or art...
When you're a hacker it means you are so high on knowledge on that particular field, that you start messing with the field itself... you create and add inventions to the field.
So people... reason a little before asking such stuff.

Answer 10

thank you guys

Answer 11

@alienium Hacking definitely takes a lot of skill if you want to be proficient!

And, if you're that good, you can get into a job where you are paid to try to break programs. I think, in the book I briefly read, there was mention of businesses that tried to hack clients very professionally and write up reports concerning flaws and possible fixes.

@faoziaziz No problem!

Answer 12

i am newbie, can you help me to study by step in step

thanks for response @theEric

Answer 13

There really is no step by step guide. The thing is to learn about a combination of hardware and software. Learn not just programming with high level languages, but also with low level. That requires understanding the machine more.