Thanks to the aid of today’s Mass Media, that the term “Hacking” has developed more of negative connotation than the positive. And if adding Ethical before it no wonder you have confused the audience all the more.
Hacking is a vague term which is generally correlated with people having malicious intentions who can be termed as ‘Crackers’.
But my understanding say broadly speaking hacker fall in to following 3 buckers:-
- Crackers- Hacking Activist: - who are real anti-social elements and have vindictive & despiteful intentions behind it.
- Hobby Hacker : - kiddos who such things as part of their hobby by simply downloading few hacking tools, nothing really harmful.
- IT Security Research Analyst- Professional : - these are the people we have to work hand-in-hand with so as to safe guard our Data Assets!!!!!!
Hackers have a lot to offer... So let’s give them the respect they deserve for safe guarding our organisation rather than defaming them.
And yes I do believe that if defined properly hacking is a ethical activity as long as it’s for social benefit.
What’s your opinion people......??????
Thanks for changing my perception towards Hackers. The -ve connotation is definitely gone...
ReplyDeleteIn the old days, before the media twisted the meaning of the word, hacking was just another name for uber-geeks who knew everything about particular hardware or software systems. Their knowledge was highly sought after by organisations to help improve them.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you have a lot of PR work to do restoring this image :)
Edward:- I guess media need to be educated about the same too.... :)
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