On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> > Pradeepto has given a very nice explanation. > > However, in the legal scenerio, refering to Indian IT act 2000, > unfortunately the term hacker or hacking is taken in the wrong sense. > > This is what it says: > > Section XI 66 : Hacking with Computer System > (1) Whoever with the intent to cause or knowing that he > is likely > to cause wrongful loss or damage to the public or any person, destroys > or deletes or alters any information residing in a computer resource > or diminishes its value or utility or affects it injuriously by any > means, commits hacking. > > (2) Whoever commits hacking shall be punished with > imprisonment up > to three years, or with fine which may extend up to two lakh rupees, > or with both. > > Well, we can not change the people who write these words but we can > educate them and all others by giving knowledge with the proper > meanings/explanations (Like the one Pradeepto has given) > > Even if we accept the legal terminology, Ethical and Hacker will not > go together. > > Most of the people on the list understand/know what Pradeepto said. > > -Sudhanwa > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > As fas as i know, in Open Source/Linux, the term hacking means improving and/or contributing to the applications/kernel etc. Correct me, if i'm wrong. -- anything weird is worth a try... Chirag Anand 4th Year, B.Tech Computer Science Department, JUIT Solan Blog :http://techfreaks4u.com/blog Linux User: 476783 _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
