How to Become a TRUE Hacker... not a cracker
* Passion is all... key of entrepreneurship... makes dream come
true... in whatever activity...
- JFA
"There is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and
networking wizards that traces its history back through decades to the
first time-sharing minicomputers and the earliest ARPAnet experiments.
The members of this culture originated the term 'hacker'.
There is another group of people who loudly call themselves hackers,
but aren't. These are people who get a kick out of breaking into
computers and phreaking the phone system. Real hackers call these
people 'crackers' and want nothing to do with them. Real hackers
object that being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker any
more than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.
There are people who apply the true hacker attitude to other things,
like electronics or music — but in the rest of this article we will
focus the skills and attitudes of software hackers, and the traditions
of the shared culture that originated the term 'hacker'.
... http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Hacker
