Is hacking a profession? Is hacking a legitimate profession

Hackers generally refer to people and computer scientists who are good at IT technology. Hackers are proficient in a variety of programming languages and operating systems, and have grown with the development of computers and networks. The word "hacker" is transliterated from the English hacker, which has no obvious positive or derogatory connotation, and is judged according to the context in English applications, and its original meaning is similar to the words such as knife catcher, gunman, and expert that are often mentioned in Chinese dialogue.

What hackers do is not malicious destruction, they are a group of technicians who are crisscrossing the network, keen on scientific and technological exploration and computer scientific research. In the hacker circle, the word hacker undoubtedly has a positive meaning, for example: system hacker is familiar with the design and maintenance of operations; A password hacker is good at finding out the user's password, and if it is a computer hacker, it is a master who knows the computer and enters the operating system of someone else's computer.

According to the founder of open source** "Eric S. Raymond", the interpretation of this word: "Hacker Arsenal Hacker" and "Cracker" are two different worlds of the race, the basic difference is that hackers are constructive, while hackers specialize in sabotage.

Hackers originally meant workers who chop wood with axes, and were first introduced to the computer world in the 1960s. Brian Harvey, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote that students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at the time were usually divided into two groups: one was tool, which means a well-behaved student with a grade of first; The other is the so-called hackers, that is, students who often skip class, love to sleep in class, but are energetic at night and like to engage in extracurricular activities. <

Hacker is a name, the same noun as 007, not a profession. In the eyes of saboteurs, hackers are using cyber hacking techniques to make others lose money and then make huge profits themselves. In the eyes of white hats, hacking is a spirit.

In the eyes of ordinary people, hackers may be those who are highly skilled, and sometimes they will cause sabotage, and they belong to an extremely dangerous group.

Penetration testing is a profession.

Hacking is a quality, a representative.

Hobbies, however, it is a crime to cause damage.

Hacking is not a profession, but a spirit.

It is not necessarily a hacker who knows hacking skills, it may also be a gray hat or a white hat, but it should be considered a hacker to do black industry, and some script boys are also counted, and there is no need to say that the word is too high, and hackers are also divided into levels.

Hacker is a Chinese word, all derived from English hacker, with the emergence of the gray pigeon, the gray pigeon has become a lot of hacking technology to control other people's computers in the name of hackers, so there is a "hacker" and"Hackers"Separation. In 2012, the movie "Hacker" produced by the Movie Channel Program Center also began to use the word hacker, showing the convergence of Chinese usage habits. In fact, hackers (or hackers) cannot be completely translated from the original English meanings such as hacker and cracker, which is a difference in the development of Chinese and English language words.

The word hacker originally referred to computer experts who are enthusiastic about computer technology and have a high level, especially programmers, and gradually distinguish them into white hats, gray hats, black hats, etc., of which black hat (black hat) is actually cracker. In ** reports, the term hacker often refers to those software hackers (software crackers), while the opposite of hackers (black hats) is white hats. <>

Whether a hacker violates the law in China depends on whether the hacker's behavior is a crime or not, and if a malicious attack on a computer system is carried out and the computer system is damaged, it may constitute a crime.

The Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China

Article 286 [Crime of sabotaging computer information systems; Crime of dereliction of duty in network services] Violating state regulations by deleting, modifying, adding, or interfering with the functions of a computer information system, causing the computer information system to fail to operate normally, and the consequences are serious, a sentence of up to five years imprisonment or short-term detention is to be given; where the consequences are especially serious, the sentence is to be five or more years imprisonment.

Where state provisions are violated by deleting, modifying, or adding to data or applications stored, processed, or transmitted in computer information systems, and the consequences are serious, punishment is to be given in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

Where computer viruses or other destructive programs are intentionally created or disseminated, impacting the normal operation of computer systems, and the consequences are serious, punishment is to be given in accordance with the provisions of the first paragraph.

Where a unit commits the crimes in the preceding three paragraphs, the unit is to be fined, and the directly responsible managers and other directly responsible personnel are to be punished in accordance with the provisions of the first paragraph.