Sorry for butting in with a dumb question,
isn't a hacker, like you said, a very passionate
and devoted programmer ----- BUT
Isn't a *cracker* is someone who breaks into
computers maliciously?
Please update my database if the info
I typed is not correct.
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Mark Weaver wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> Most ISP's as a rule no longer allow telneting except after very specific
> rules have been setup and established between the user and the ISP. This
> is primarily because of the prolipheration of hackers, (I hate using that
> term because a REAL hacker wouldn't do anything malicious...a REAL hacker
> is just another term for a VERY passionate programmer. not a child with a
> lot of knowledge and no principles on how to use it.) Because of the
> amount of malicious hacking that's gone on in the past 10 years ISP's have
> closed that door in order to protect themselves from outside attack.
>
> --
> Mark
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> On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Andrew Scotchmer wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Just a quick question. Does any host allow the telnet function? I live in
> > the UK and all our servers do not allow users to telnet to them. Infact every
> > one I try whether here or abroad no longer seems to allow telneting.
> >
> > I ask as seeing that now I now much about my own system I want to expand my
> > knowledge but this has become a problem. All the info I read about the
> > internet ( that is the real internet not just the world wide web ) and how
> > it works talk of telneting but I can not seem to get anywhere with it.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
