A hackish attack is understood as ‘Criminal attempt for the security system’ in the narrow sense of the word at present, and rather inclines to the sense of the following term ‘Cracker attack’. It has occurred due to distortion of the meaning of the word ‘hacker’.

A hackish attack in the broad sense of the word (original sense) is a brainstorming directed to find out ways to solve complex tasks. One or several highly qualified specialists (hackers) Continue reading →

Hacker’s Manifesto (Engl. Hacker Manifesto, The Conscience of a Hacker) is a text written on the 08^th of January 1986 by a hacker Lloyd Blankenship, famous after his arrest by agents of FBI. A somewhat later this text (that became a program document for hackers of the whole world soon) was included into the seventh issue of electronic magazine Phrack. Continue reading →

Characters-hackers are sufficiently spread in science fiction, especially in the genre cyberpunk. In this context hackers are usually protagonists which struggle for oppressive structures which are predominantly a transnational corporation. This struggle is usually for freedom and access to information. Communist or anarchist slogans often sound in such a struggle.

Bryus Stirling in his work ‘Hunting for hackers’ leads up the hacker movement to the movement of phone frickers that was formed Continue reading →

It is common practice to esteem time of theirs and other hackers (not to reinvent the wheel) that, particularly, implies necessity to share with their achievements creating free and/or open programs.

Free program software — a wide range of program solutions in which the rights of the user (‘freedom’) for unlimited installation, launch and also free use, spread and change (improvement) of the programs are protected legally by copyright with the help of free licenses.

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Historical reasons of differences in meanings of the word ‘hacker’
The meaning of the word ‘hacker’ in its original sense was, possible, born in MIT in

60-s, long before computers got wide-spread. Then it was a part of the local slang

and could mean a simple but rude solution of some problem, damned sly trick of

students (the author was usually called a hacker). Up to that time words ‘hack’ and

‘hacker’ were used by various reasons irrelatively to computer technique in Continue reading →