meryl wrote:
Here's a bit more about what was in the article that I'm trying to
find...
Meryl,
I've just read the article.
I find little in it to take issue with, except his apparent presumption
that "cracking is a subset of hacking", rather than "cracking intersects
with hacking".
The author apparently believes that all cracking techniques, such as
dictionary or brute force attacks for example, are hacks. I doubt any
serious hacker would agree. There is little hack value in an obvious
approach, the author acknowledges as much himself .. hacking is
predicated on novelty or creativity.
To state it another way, he believes "all cracks are hacks, but not all
hacks are cracks". He is therefore unable to properly differentiate
cracking from hacking and has conflated them.
If I were challenging him I think this would be the basis of my challenge.
regards
Terry
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