talking on this sort of lines, brings up something interesting. There are people employed to hack systems, and crack things. Not sure what its about but someone has to test security systems and report on their effectiveness, etc. At 03:07 a.m. 4/07/2007, you wrote:
>Hi Andy, > >Start quote >hackers anyone? Ever heard of them? Anyone know what they do, ever >thought of them? >End quote > >As a matter of fact I have. I know the difference between a hacker and a >cracker which it is obvious you don't. A hacker is an old term to refer >to programmers which has somehow been misused by the media to describe >dishonest software pirates. A cracker, the correct term, is somehone who >cracks software and breaks illegally into networks and computers. >The truth is software developers, at least some of them, are hackers and >are aware of many cracker methods to break into there systems. Back in >my college days I use to experiment with brute force attacks to crack >passwords, use ping to crash network servers, and generally tried out >every hack I heard of. However, my intent was not to do harm, but to >find out if said crack was valid, and secure it if possible. >I had a dedicated Unix system in my dorm room I used to attempt to crack >into, and I used my own passworded Word 97 files to crack into to find >security holes in that software which was nitoriously unsecure. My >point, there is a difference in attempting to crack software to discover >security holes to fix them or see if it is valid, and quite another to >use that knolege to do harm or to steell software. >Right now I have a couple of pieces of cracker software on my software >which could crack Shades of Doom or GTC, but i have legal copies of >both. I'm using the software on my own games to make sure that the I >won't be a victem to the same kind of cracker attack. So keep that in >mind, and don't think that all developers are ignorant of the tools of >the cracker trade. It is just sometimes difficult to deffend against >specific kinds of attacks. > > > >_______________________________________________ >Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org >To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make >any subscription changes via the web. > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.9.14/884 - Release Date: >2/07/2007 3:35 p.m. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.9.14/884 - Release Date: 2/07/2007 3:35 p.m. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
