What is HACKING???

The term "Hacking" is totally misunderstood word in computer science...

The term "hacking" in the 1980's became a buzzword in the media which was taken to be derogatory and which by misuse and overuse was attached to any form of socially non-acceptable computing activity outside of polite society. Within this context "hackers" were assumed to be the fringe society of the computing fraternity, mainly characterized as "youngsters" who did not know any better and who had obtained access to a technology with which they terrorized the world of communications and computing. To be tagged as a "hacker" was to portray a person as member of a less than acceptable group of near criminals whose activities were not be to be undertaken by the upright citizenry. These connotations are in contrast to the use of the term in the 1950's and 1960's when hackers were at least to be tolerated for their potential, though not necessarily displayed in public.

Only in more recent times has there been a confusion between the terms "hacker", "petty criminal" and possibly "nerd".

taken from --> J.A.N.Lee 1991 January 23 Final Draft

Then what is HACKING???

Hacking is about gaining more knowledge through the use of computers.

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