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Tiptoes · 03-12-2003, 01:35

Actually the first time hacking was coined in realtion to work was by the Amercian Model Railroad workers,

It was then used to describe people "Hacking away" at keyboard in the Comptuer Engineering labs of AT&T aAnd MIT in the late 70's..

Phone Phreaking was the main hobby then which was then termed phone hacking. Ethical hackers are reffered to as white hat hackers and the rest as black hat hackers.

People who perform reverse software engineering are commonly known as "crackers" but again this is turning into black and white hat.

Hacking Groups will contain both hackers and crackers some although people can do both.

03-12-2003, 01:35	#7
Tiptoes Inactive Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Ask not what your country can do for you but what a mess we could have made of your country Posts: 250	Re: Hacking Actually the first time hacking was coined in realtion to work was by the Amercian Model Railroad workers, It was then used to describe people "Hacking away" at keyboard in the Comptuer Engineering labs of AT&T aAnd MIT in the late 70's.. Phone Phreaking was the main hobby then which was then termed phone hacking. Ethical hackers are reffered to as white hat hackers and the rest as black hat hackers. People who perform reverse software engineering are commonly known as "crackers" but again this is turning into black and white hat. Hacking Groups will contain both hackers and crackers some although people can do both.