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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on Hacker vs. Cracker ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Such eloquence,]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-307093-3704529]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[wasted on a 3 plus year old article.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[wizard57m-cnet]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 04:26:13 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[HACKER VS CRACKER]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Excellent distinction, though there's a lot of florid linguistic foreplay before you get to the meat of your argument.  Always start with a clear articulation of your argument. Then clarify definitions. Then expand your argument and explore nuances.  Your tirade against the &quot;media&quot; (also requiring definition) could have gone at the end.  The fact is that the term &quot;hacker&quot; does not suffer from a simple duality of arenas, where  one group of insiders knows the truth and the thronging masses remain ignorant and poisoned by the malfeasance of the &quot;media.&quot;  In truth, the term &quot;hacker&quot; is probably the only reason most computer programmers ever got laid.  At last they had something of a desperado mystique to defray the staid iconography of the hygienically-challenged misanthrope who'd rather spend his Saturday evenings bathing in the blue tint of a computer terminal than in the sultry clutches of some daiquiri-addled sorority girl with a daddy complex.  So go ahead, geld the term &quot;hacker.&quot; But you do so, I fear, at your peril.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ptaegel]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:49:29 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gifted]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm sure in some cases the person may be gifted.  I've hired people because they're gifted even if they lack the paperwork.  But in the case of keeping security you might be interested in someone's skill set now rather than later when he gets himself up to speed.  And there is still the issue of the paycheck.  Would you pay him full prime because he HAS the potential or only pay him full when he achieves it?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Saurondor]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:21:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ah-hh ... breadboards ... (slips into deep nostalgic reverie .... )]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-307093-3062645]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Scrap wood, or discarded furniture with suitable flat surface, Fanstock clips, binding posts, alligator &amp; crocodile clips, scrap wire salvaged from everywhere &amp; anything, scavenging the local sink holes, which the town folk used for trash disposal, hoping to find a recently discarded radio or electric appliance, boxes of discrete components carefully removed from the fruits of such hunts, the cuts &amp; burns suffered during such stripping process; later, radio chassis stripped of all but the power supply, mounted tube sockets, terminal strips, and rotary controls such as pots &amp; open air caps, the smell of solder rosin &amp; burnt insulation, the purple glow of a tube running wild  -  all of these and more.The shear joy of building something from scratch &amp; having it work with a bit of troubleshooting.Thanks for reminding me of those halcyon days.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[deepsand]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:54:23 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Particulary if trashing the system is within the scope of your authority.]]></title>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[deepsand]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:06:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[:O]]></title>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[deepsand]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:03:44 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Crackers =  BAD]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[says Leo, a kid I knew my senior year in high school.  He called me a cracker all the time!  Though, I don't think it was because of my then computer skills.However, I am a firm believer that: Hacker = good Cracker = badI think I actually might have had an unfortunate case of using the term hacker in a job interview.  I remember seeing some wide eyes, and... I don't work there.The term hacker SHOULD be used lightly, as I believe it refers to the elite of programmers and admins.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[vhrocker]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:54:03 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what makes you think that the new hire isn't a gifted Hacker?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It could easily be someone who's grown up in the Hacker mind set exploring and learning about technology who's not accepted an entry level job. Maybe the mighty CIO or infosec manager has a degree in comp sci but has no interest in tech outside of work.Choosing between a Uni grad with papers and little interest outside of work versus no papers and a nearly obsessive interest in learning about tech; I'm hiring the second more likely than the first provided he demonstrates the skills obtained outside of school.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:36:31 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[doublpost]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[post scrubbed, didn't realize it was an old post I replied to already.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:27:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[watch clerks II]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[and you'll see the reclaimation of porch monkey.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[pamelahowell@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:47:53 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That's the bit I was missing]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Yee 'ol direct current flow; not enough time mucking with the breadboard as a kid.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:35:37 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That may be, permission kind of negates malicious intent doesn't it]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[nt]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:33:03 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[i am jubair alam and now i am job in network proffestional]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[jubair.alam@rediff.com]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jubair.alam@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:12:14 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Doesn't handle DC voltage levels.]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-307093-3061817]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[We'd need a full blown pre-SS6 POTS emulator between VOIP &amp; local POTS equipment.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[deepsand]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:22:16 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Of what relevance the &quot;other hand&quot; to matter at hand?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[deepsand]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:17:53 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[By any standard, there's no basis for conflating the two.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[At best, the latter may render the former moot with regards to any penalty imposed.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[deepsand]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:16:04 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[On the other hand]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If we look at the opposite of the security cracker.  The person you hire to maintain security.  On one side you have the expert who knows the system inside out.  On the other you have the rookie who's real good and downloading stuff and running monitoring processes and stares at the screen waiting for the next port sweep to appear.They're both maintaining security in their own ways.  Would you give them the same job title?  Give them the same job description?  Pay them the same?  Would you hire them?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Saurondor]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:37:04 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Oh, good, it isn't just me.]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-307093-3061243]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I started to post something similar but stopped, thinking maybe it had some non-derogatory meaning I wasn't aware of.  Maybe some people use it interchangeably with 'rug rat', 'crumb snatcher', 'ankle biter', 'curtain swinger', and other semi-affectionate nicknames for children.  I've never heard 'porch monkey' used in any way other than as an insult, and primarily as a racist one.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:42:58 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I have to think on this a bit further]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[We may now be limited to listening to the recorded tones of the various boxes. If I read correctly though, voice and commands inline would make both the content and the controls part of the audio stream. Could one connect the local wires to a remote system which also supports the analogy signal using the VOIP as only a bridge? Inband signal is compressed on one side and expanded on the other back to it's near original?It would expand the scene past listening to recordings and chatting on confs.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:32:47 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think I'm combining Intent and authority]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Authority in the meaning of &quot;having permission to or ownership over&quot; where knowingly breaking into a system without authority demonstrates intent. But, intent is the corner stone though.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:39:29 -0700</pubDate>
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