Just another Perl hacker - Just another Perl hacker A Perl program which prints "Just another Perl hacker" using extremely obfuscated methods, typically ones based on obscure behaviours of sometimes rarely-used functions, in the spirit of the Obfuscated C Contest. The obfuscation can result from the code being total gibberish, e.g.: $_="krJhruaesrltre c a cnp,ohet";$_.=$1,print$2while s/(..)(.)//; or from having "Just another Perl hacker" embedded in opaque code: $_='987;s/^(d+)/$1-1/e;$1?eval:print"Just another Perl hacker,"';eval or from looking like it does something simple and completely unrelated to printing "Just another Perl hacker": $_ = "wftedskaebjgdpjgidbsmnjgc"; tr/a-z/oh, turtleneck Phrase Jar!/; print; This phrase was popularized by Randal L. Schwartz, who created most of the first such programs in the signatures of his postings to the Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.perl (the predecessor to the modern comp.lang.perl.misc). See also: Obfuscated Perl contest.
Hacker - Hacker A hacker is anyone who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations, primarily in their fields of interest, namely programming or electrical engineering. As will be discussed below, there is a trend in the popular press to use the term to describe computer criminals, and others, whose motivations are less pure than the traditional hacker. This trend greatly annoys many of those old-school computer/technology enthusiasts. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Origin of the term at MIT 2 Hacker -- Brilliant Programmer 3 Hacker -- Computer Criminal 4 Hacker -- Grey Hat 5 Hacker -- White Hat 6 How Some Hackers Define Themselves 7 Notable Hackers 8 Notable Crackers 9 See also 10 External Links 11 Other meanings of the word "hacker" Origin.
Hacker ethic - Hacker ethic The hacker ethic is either: The belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good, and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing open source code and facilitating access to information and to computing resources wherever possible. or The belief that system-cracking for fun and exploration is ethically OK as long as the cracker commits no theft, vandalism, or breach of confidentiality. Both of these normative ethical principles are widely, but by no means universally, accepted among hackers. Most hackers subscribe to the hacker ethic in the first sense, and many act on it by writing and giving away open-source software. A few go further and assert that all information should be free and any proprietary control of.
Hackers - term Hackers can apply to several things: Hacker Hacking Hackers (movie) Hackers (novel) - novel based on the movie Hackers (short stories) Hackers Heroes of the Computer Revolution, a book by Steven Levy This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Hacker con - Hacker con Hacker con is a term for a convention of hackers. Hacker cons are meetings place for phreakers and hackers. The biggest in the United States is DEF CON..
Hacker culture - Hacker culture Hacker cultures commonly encourage: freedom sharing information right to fork These sort of cultures are commonly found at academic settings such as college campuses. The MIT AI labs and University of California, Berkeley are well known beds of hacker culture. The Wikipedia itself can be considered an instance of hacker culture. See also: free software This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Hacker community - Hacker community A hacker community is a group of programmers who share code, exchange improvements and teach one another "tricks" or better methods or writing. "Hacking" in this sense does not have anything to do with illegal computer activity; instead it connotes clever and useful solutions to legitimate computer problems. (See: Hacker (Brilliant Programmer)) Probably the most notable hacker community is the community of open source/free software programmers. In this community, Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds are two of the most well-known hackers. People contribute to such a community for various reasons, like making useful contributions where they can, wanting to replace proprietary software with open code, or being a part of a larger group. The Internet plays a key role in hacker communities; it allows.
Hackers (movie) - released in 1995 is a movie that follows the miss-fortunes of young hacker Dade Murphy (aka 'Crash Override'/'Zero Cool'). Written by Rafael Moreu and directed by Iain Softley. The movie failed to make a profit at the box-office, but has developed a cult following from its video release. Despite it not being technically accurate all the time, the use of [[metaphorical graphical sequences is used well to substitute what would normally be hours of boring text screens and typing. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Plot 2 Background 3 Ratings 4 Technical 5 External Link: Plot Forced to move to New York when his mother gets a new job. Dade was convicted in his childhood as the youngest ever hacker for crashing 1411 systems and causing a drop in the NYSE and.
Hacker Manifesto - Hacker Manifesto The Hackers Manifesto is a small article written by a hacker which went by the handle, or pseudonym, The Mentor during the 1980s. The contents are as follows. Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"... Damn kids. They're all alike. But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him? I am a hacker, enter my world... Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me... Damn underachiever. They're.
Hackers (short stories) - The two main characters are Bobby Quine who specializes in software and Automatic Jack who is more into hardware. Automatic Jack comes across a piece of Russian hacking software that is very sophisticated and hard to trace. A third character in the story is Rikki, a girl who Bobby becomes infatuated with and wants to hit it big for. The rest of the story unfold with Bobby deciding to break into the system of a notorious hacker called Chrome, who handles money transfers for the organized crime, and Automatic Jack reluctantly agreeing to help him. "Spirit of the Night" This story was written by Tom Maddox, and was first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1987. This is the story of a man whose wife is kidnapped during a.
Hackers Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Hackers Heroes of the Computer Revolution is a book by Steven Levy about the hacker culture. It was published in 1984 in Garden City, New York by Anchor Press/Doubleday. Levy describes the people, the machines, and the events that defined the Hacker Culture and the Hacker Ethic, from the early mainframe hackers at MIT, to the self-made hardware hackers and game hackers. However since the book was written in the 1980s, there is no mention of the network hackers of the 1990s. Below is a summary of each chapter of the book, mentioning some the principal characters and events. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Preface 2 Who's Who 3 Part One: True Hackers 4 Part Two: Hardware Hackers 5 Part Three: Game Hackers 6 Epilogue: The Last of the True Hackers.
Great Hacker War - Great Hacker War The Great Hacker War took place across the Internet, x.25, and telephone networks across the world. The outcome found Masters of Deception (MoD) victorious over the older guard hacker group Legion of Doom (LOD. The war changed the face of computer security forever, and select members of the LOD, as a result of the embarrassment, resorted to calling up the FBI and US Secret Service and informing on the MoD members..
Dark-side hacker - Dark-side hacker A Dark-side Hacker is a criminal or malicious hacker: a cracker. From George Lucas's Darth Vader, "seduced by the dark side of the Force." The implication that hackers form a sort of elite of technological Jedi Knights is intended. Contrast samurai The initial version of this article came from The on-line hacker Jargon File, version 4.4.2, 22 May 2003.
2600 The Hacker Quarterly - 2600 The Hacker Quarterly Summer 2001 2600 Issue 2600: The Hacker Quarterly is a traditional (printed) magazine named for the fact that phreakers in the 1960s found that the transmission of a 2600-hertz tone (which could be produced perfectly with a plastic toy whistle given away free with Cap'n Crunch cereal - discovered by John Draper) over a long-distance trunk connection gained access to "operator mode" and allowed the user to explore aspects of the telephone system that were not otherwise accessible. The magazine is published by Eric Corley and his company, 2600 Enterprises, Inc., and specializes in publishing technical information on telephone switching systems, satellite descrambling codes, and news about the computer underground. 2600 has established the HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) conferences as well as.
A Hacker History - A Hacker History 1971 a Vietnam vet named John Draper discovered that the giveaway whistle in Cap'n Crunch cereal boxes perfectly reproduced a 2600 hertz tone. Draper builds a "blue box" that, when used in conjunction with the whistle and sounded into a phone receiver, allows phreaks to make free calls. Shortly thereafter, Esquire magazine publishes "Secrets of the Little Blue Box" with instructions for making a blue box, and wire fraud in the United States escalates. 1972 Abbie Hoffman helps found The Youth International Party Line newsletter. Hoffman's publishing partner, Al Bell, changed the YIPL newsletter's name to TAP, for Technical Assistance Program. 1972 The InterNetworking Working Group is founded to govern the standards of the developing network. Vinton Cerf is the chairman and is.
The Hacker's Handbook - The Hacker's Handbook The Hacker's Handbook is a legendary non-fiction book from the 1980s effectively explaining how computer systems of the period were hacked. It contains candid and personal comments from the book's claimed British author, Hugo Cornwall, although this is very likely to be a psyeudonym, with the author never making himself known. The book was arguably most popular because of salactious print outs of actual hacking attempts (although confidential details, such as passwords, were blacked out). The full text of this book is available online: http://www.textfiles.com/etext/MODERN/hhbk.
The Hacker - The Hacker The Hacker is a Swiss electroclash producer, who has worked extensively with Miss Kitten..
Reality Hacker - Reality Hacker A reality hacker is an urban spelunker. "Building hacker" is a better term than "reality hacker" for participants in urban exploration activity. Using the definition of hacker that the mainstream media uses, a reality hacker is like a computer hacker but instead of hacking into computers, a reality hacker "hacks" (enters without authorization, trespasses, explores) in real life. A reality hacker is an explorer of the underlying reality of existence; using any tools available. Science is an important subset of reality hacking. Classical mysticism is another. The hacking part means, as with other forms of hacking, learning of capabilities that the ordinary user may never realize are in the system. This uses the definition of hacker used by computer programmers, not the mainstream media. Reality.
Marilyn Hacker - Marilyn Hacker Marilyn Hacker (born 1942) is an American poet, critic, and reviewer. Her books of poetry include Going Back to the River (1990), Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (1986), and Presentation Piece (1975), which won the National Book Award. She was born in Bronx, New York and attended the Bronx High School of Science, where she met Samuel R. Delany. The two later married and had a child..
Kevin Mitnick - a bail hearing, while also held in solitary confinement for eight months "in order to prevent a possible nuclear strike being initiated by me from a prison payphone". The course of his trial and punishment became a cause celebre amongst the hacker community. This movement was spearheaded by 2600's "Free Kevin" campaign. He was released from prison in January 2002, but banned from using the Internet until the midnight of January 21, 2003. On January 21, 2003, on the live television show The Screen Savers on TechTV, Kevin Mitnick visited the first website since his release, the blog of his girlfriend. Mitnick is now working in consulting, and will be a keynote speaker at a security conference for executives held in November 2003. He also is CEO of the security company.
