Pilipino ang mga matatalino Bakit?

Eyes of the anonymous

Nangarap kadin bang maging isang hacker?? At ihack ang computer ng inyong school dahil asar na asar ka sa administration office ninyo dahil kadalasan ay kasalanan mo pa ang pagkawala nila ng grades mo kahit na hindi dapat isisi sayo?

Gusto mo rin bang matutunan manghack dahil sa nagdududa ka sa kachat ng gf/Bf mo sa social media dahil hindi nya ito pinapakita sayo?

Nagisip karin bang kuhanin ang password ng inyong kapit bahay ng hindi nila nalalaman?

O gusto mo tularan ang mga sikat na hacker na bilyon at milyon ang nakukuha sa mga banko?

Trip mo lang talaga mang hack at mangbaboy ng account?

Hacking, the term that become synonymous with wrong doings and the amount of affected people might be the reason for that. The meanings of hacking are many and most are intended to describe the act of engaging in activities (such as programming or other media) in a spirit of playfulness and exploration. But, the destructive intentions of some hackers have turned this word into something bad.

Definition of hacker that ordinary people knew:

The most common definition that majority of the people always see, hear, and think of, is that: A hacker is someone who gains access without legal authorization to a computer or computer network.
But, we must know how hacking started to be able to understand the "true" definition of that term.

A short history of hacking, how it started:

One of the primary places computer hacking originated was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during the late 50's and 60's. A group of students, many of who came from the Tech Model Railroad Club (which had an incredibly complicated switching system for its model railroad) were able to use a couple MIT computers very late at night. So they started to write programs. Showing how hierarchical computer access was, one computer (an IBM 704 worth several millions) was guarded by a group of people who were called "The Priesthood." Students were not even allowed to touch it! They would have to reserve time and then give their program cards to a priest to enter it into the machine. They preferred using a donated TX 0 computer that gave real-time feedback and whose owner was much more permissive in granting access, over the batch processing IBM which was maintained by a bureaucracy. Due to MIT's computer rules, there was a lot of conflict between the "hackers" and the "Officially Sanctioned Users." The hackers used the computers to innovate and explore, whereas the others used them to speed-up traditional number crunching. The hackers believed that computers could create new paradigms, and wanted to expand the tasks computers could accomplish.

As computer time was so valuable, hackers developed the ethic of not wasting it. Computers ran around the clock and there were always a group of students ready to fill-in in case someone would not show up for their slot. It wasn't only college students who were interested. One faculty kid turned hacker, Peter Dreutsch, got computer time under a false name and wrote his first program at the age of twelve. As they had to write basic programs to run the computer, they shared their work freely. They enjoyed such feats as fine-tuning a program to be as efficient with scan computing resources as possible. The Tech Model Railroad Club defined a hack as, "a project undertaken or a product built not solely to fulfill some constructive goal, but with some wild pleasure taken in mere involvement", and the most proficient members were self-defined "hackers" (Levy).

The true* definitions of the word hacker:

- A computer hacker is someone who lives and breathes computers, who knows all about computers, who can get a computer to do anything.
- A hacker is an aesthete**.
- A hacker is a person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.
- A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular.
- A hacker is someone who thinks outside the box. It's someone who discards conventional wisdom, and does something else instead.
- A hacker is someone who experiments with the limitations of systems for intellectual curiosity.