What is hacking ?

Many people categorise hacking as illegal activities including stealing bank funds, breaking into bank accounts, social media accounts, invading privacy, infecting computers with viruses to harm people for fun or any other thing they are going to say but i'll tell you that this isn't what hacking is all about but I wouldn't deny that it's part.

In the Cyber world a hacker is a person who is able to find loopholes and flaws in systems and manage to exploit them. The exploitation of the loop holes found (vulnerabilities) found here can either be reported and patched to improve security (Ethical hacking) or for malicious purposes such as stealing funds.

Origins of hacking

Hacking originated from the M.I.T engineers in the 1960's where a group of people were aimed at making computers do things against their original programming by their creators. If you take a deep look at this you'll see that hacking can also be defined as making a computer do things outside its creator's aim.

Hacking and Cracking

All forms of illegal activities done with the manipulation of computers are termed as cracking while all manipulations with good intentions are the actual hacking. Most people fail to differentiate between these two terms

If you have any questions concerning this topic put them in the comments below

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  1. UnknownOctober 22, 2017 at 6:39 AM

    How can I become A hacker

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    1. UchihaOctober 22, 2017 at 1:12 PM

      Send your email to me directly and i will send you some tutorials for beginners

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    2. G#0$tOctober 22, 2017 at 1:48 PM

      Hey there Elijah I'm G#0$T

      The road to hacking isn't a straight one and is filled with lots of dedication, time and most of all self learning you might have great passion for hacking (penetration testing) and I can help with that but not on this platform go to http://Greyhatcommunity.blogspot.com There you'll find lots of articles, books as well as Udemy tutorials to learn programming and hacking to the core but unfortunately this blog dosen't have such capabilities yet as it's still under development you can mail me at gh0st.es.321@Gmail.com or on telegram http://t.me/Gh0st_es

      Have a nice day also know that Google is your best friend ok your path :)

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  2. UnknownNovember 5, 2017 at 4:55 AM

    arifm138@gmail.com contact with you

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    1. G#0$tNovember 5, 2017 at 6:40 AM

      i should contact you or what ? If you have any questions, send them to gh0st.es.321@Gmail.com

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