Hacker or Cracker ?

Hacker or Cracker - Select a Hackers or Cracker?
Indonesia
July 2, 2011 2:00am CST
1. Hacker Hacker is a term for those who provide a useful contribution to the computer network, make a small program and share it with people on the internet. For example : digigumi(Digital Group) is a group that specialized is engaged in gaming and computers. Digigumi hexadecimal uses the techniques to change the text contained within the game. For example, the game Chrono Trigger English can be transformed into the Indonesian language. Therefore, the status Digigumi are hackers, but not as a destroyer. Hacker here means, to seek, learn and change things for the hobby and development by following the legality has been determined by the game developers. The hacker usually do infiltration-infiltration with the intention of satisfying the knowledge and techniques. Average the average company in the world of global networks(the internet) also has a hacker. His job is to keep the network from possible destruction of the outside party "Crackers", testing the possibility of a network of holes that the chances of a cracker tear-tear apart the network, for example: insurance companies and auditing " Price Waterhouse". He has a team of hackers called the Tiger Team. They work for their client to test security systems. 2. Cracker Cracker is a term for those who go into other people's systems and crackers is more destructive, usually on a computer network, bypasses passwords or licenses computer program, knowingly against computer security, deface the (changing the web home page) belonged to someone else even up to delete the data of others, stealing data and generally do the cracking to his own advantage, malice, or for other reasons as there are challenges. Some of the piercing done to show the security weaknesses of the system. What do you think about the existence of Hackers and Crackers?
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@ravisivan (14079)
• India
6 Jul 11
Both the terms make you alert. Somehow stigma is attached behind these two terms. I am not sure whether hackers are helping genuinely people or they do it for their advantage like a mafia. you seem to be knowing about it well. Can you please tell me about these.