http://eradicus.blogsome.com/2006/03/07/ethical-hacking-a-glimpse-of-my-philo-paper/ Software Engineering Blog Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:54:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha http://eradicus.blogsome.com/2006/03/07/ethical-hacking-a-glimpse-of-my-philo-paper/#comment-13 Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:45:31 +0000 http://eradicus.blogsome.com/2006/03/07/ethical-hacking-a-glimpse-of-my-philo-paper/#comment-13 FWIW, hackers didn't start out getting labeled as the bad guys, ergo the absence or lack of any ethical conotations for the word "hacker" back then. In fact, when a system programmer was able to make something work albeit the impossibility of desired output through "normal" means, he gets commended for "hacking" the impossible. Modern day black hats are another breed, if I must say. FWIW, hackers didn’t start out getting labeled as the bad guys, ergo the absence or lack of any ethical conotations for the word “hacker” back then. In fact, when a system programmer was able to make something work albeit the impossibility of desired output through “normal” means, he gets commended for “hacking” the impossible. Modern day black hats are another breed, if I must say.

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