hacker history

erminology hackers emerged in the early 1960s among the members of student organizations Tech Model Railroad Club in Artifisial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Student group is one of the pioneers of computer technology and they struggled with a number of mainframe computers. Said the first time hackers came up with a positive sense to refer to a member who has expertise in the field of computers and able to make computer programs better than what has been designed together.

Then in 1983, the term hacker became negative. The problem, in that year for the first time the FBI arrested a criminal group of computers The 414s are based in Milwaukee USA. 414 is their local area code. The group that came to be called a hacker was convicted of burglary 60 computers, from computers owned by Cancer Center Memorial Sloan-Kettering's computer to Los Alamos National Laboratory. One of the perpetrators are getting immunity for TESTIMONIALS, while the other 5 players get probation sentence.




Then, further up other groups to mention themselves hackers, but it's not. They are (especially the men) who have the satisfaction of breaking through computer and phone-jockey (phreaking). True hackers call these people 'crackers' and do not like to hang out with them. True hackers crackers as people look lazy, irresponsible, and not too bright. Real hackers do not agree to say that with a person through the security has become a hacker.

The hackers meeting each year which is held once every mid-July in Las Vegas. A meeting of the world's largest hacker is called Def Con. Def Con event to event is more exchange of information and technology related to hacking activities.

Hacker has a negative connotation for the public misunderstanding of the difference terms of the hackers and crackers. Many people understand that the resulting losses hackerlah certain parties such as changing the look of a web site (Defacing), insert the virus code and so on. In fact, they are a cracker. Crackerlah using vulnerabilities that have not been repaired by the software maker (bug) to infiltrate and damage a system. For this reason, hackers often understood is divided into 2 groups White Hat Hackers, the true hackers and crackers are often referred to as Black Hat Hackers.

White hat is a term of information technology in the English language that refers to the ethical hackers showed a weakness in a computer system. White hat generally focuses its action on how to protect a system, which contradicts with the black hat is more focus on how the action through the system.

Black hat hacker is a term of information technology in English which refer to those hackers who break computer security without permission, usually in order to access computers that are connected to the network. The term cracker proposed by Richard Stallman to refer in this sense.