The Seven Types of Hackers 178
Bruce Schneier's blog links to a nifty article listing the
seven types of malicious hackers. The list is: Cyber criminals;
Spammers and adware spreaders; Advanced persistent threat (APT) agents;
Corporate spies;
Hactivists;
Cyber warriors;
and Rogue hackers.
Re:Wait A Second (Score:4, Interesting)
Do you code? If not then how do you hack anything? You just load ROMs. So you're a modder. Now you may love the lifestyle, but in my not so humble opinion if you don't write code you really can only "hack" mechanical things because you can't alter the software of anything controlled by code. You can get other people to write it for you and run it. But does that really meet the definition? If so then I'm a mechanic. If that's the bar then half the world can be listed as hackers for jail breaking their phone. No sir you are a scenester. Which is okay I guess If you just want to look like you're a bad ass. Like those guys with all the Celtic tattoos on 50k "motorcycles". It's okay I guess. But it ain't no 1%er.
Re:Gotta Have Catchy Nicknames for Them Though (Score:4, Interesting)
The seven types of useless speculation-based throwaway tech articles:
1) Those that try to classify things
2) Those that list traits of things or people
3) Those that troll-bait old tech holy wars
4) Those that recycle old ideas as new and revolutionary
5) Dups from this-day-last-year because the byline didn't display the year
6) Shameless FUD
7) Those that ego-stroke the intended audience by telling them how unique they are.