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| Cyber Hacking
By: Todd Choubey
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Whenever the word 'Hacking' or 'Hacker' comes to our mind, the picture or the image which is created is that of an intelligent being who is criminal by nature, who attacks other computer systems, damages it, break codes and passwords, send viruses etc. Their mindset are as if the 'hackers' are the computer criminals. They have a very wrong notion in this regard and have a completely negative attitude and utter dislike for the 'Hackers'.
Now if such cyber criminals are not hackers then two major question which arises are:
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1. Who are Hackers? And,
2. What are such cyber criminals called?
Actually, 'Hackers' are very intelligent people who use their skill in a constructive and positive manner. They help the government to protect national documents of strategic importance, help organisations to protect documents and company secrets, and even sometimes help justice to meet its end by extracting out electronic evidence. Rather, these are people who help to keep computer criminals on the run.
Now dealing with the second part, i.e., what are such cyber criminals called? The actual word for such criminals is not 'hacker' but 'cracker'.
First I would like to explain the term 'Hacker', because there is a great misconception regarding it. I made a field study by a questionnaire method taking few samples amongst the youths across the country. In that study, for the question regarding explaining the term 'hacking', most of the samples were just beating around the bush.