One of the main misconceptions is that all hackers are bad and that they are all out to steal our information for personal gain. The truth is that most hackers are not evil, and there are organizations of hackers that are Good, Bad, Neutral all of which exist for their own purposes. They have their own names that classify these groups, and I will go into these and explain what their purposes are. Just keep an open mind while reading this article.
Types Of Hackers
Black Hat Simple Answer - Bad
There are 3 types of hackers all that have their own purpose those groups are White, Black, and Grey Hat. These groups operate for their own purposes, and we only know of the Black Hat group which would be Anonymous. A black hat group is a group of hackers that hack for personal gain and have no real morals to doing it. They are doing it for personal gain, and they don't do anything constructive. For instance anonymous takes down important sites for NO reason. While they think it is fair for their own gain they do it for the wrong reason. They do it in a protesting manner which puts them under the Black Hat group. To make it simple these are the bad guys.
Grey Hat Simple Answer- Neutral
The Grey Hat group is a group of hackers who generally hack for sport and do it for fun. They don't generally work with other hackers because their goals are very modest like checking the safety of their site. They might also hack a game on their computer to give them unlimited everything. The thing to remember about this group is that they don't hack for gain but for sport this is what separate them from the other two groups.
White Hat Simple Answer- Good
The Third and final group of hackers are the White Hat Hackers these are the ones who work and find exploits in software and hardware to report to companies to make them better. These are not well known, and it is a very large group that is growing in this era because of the growth in technology. They are also paid very handsomely to find exploits in servers and websites to protect the company from many forms of hackers. Because thousands of accounts, websites, computers are hacked daily.
There is the group of people who claim to be hacker because someone did not log out of a computer and they got onto their Facebook account. THIS IS NOT HACKING. This is the reason the term "hacker" is so misused.
Hacker is defined as:
Noun
An enthusiastic and skillful computer programmer or user.
A person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data.
Getting into your friends facebook account is not hacking. Anyone can do that now if you created a keylogger and captured their keystrokes and logged on from your computer, that is hacking. That is not legal but that is hacking. The term hacking is being misrepresented and it gives a lot of "hackers" bad names because they are the one who actually hack you just did a simple task to get into their Facebook account.
Then There Are Those People
There is the group of people who claim to be hacker because someone did not log out of a computer and they got onto their Facebook account. THIS IS NOT HACKING. This is the reason the term "hacker" is so misused.
Hacker is defined as:
Noun
An enthusiastic and skillful computer programmer or user.
A person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data.
Getting into your friends facebook account is not hacking. Anyone can do that now if you created a keylogger and captured their keystrokes and logged on from your computer, that is hacking. That is not legal but that is hacking. The term hacking is being misrepresented and it gives a lot of "hackers" bad names because they are the one who actually hack you just did a simple task to get into their Facebook account.
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