We always hear the news about the hacker broke into the company¡¦s computer system and damaged all the data. The word ¡¥hacker¡¦ often used in the media, for what we should call a ¡¥cracker¡¦ to refer the person who commits the computer crime. People always wrongly consider hacker as cracker, while they are two different things. Hacker originally refers to person who makes furniture with an axe. For recent years, it is used to …showed first 75 words of 486 total…

…showed last 75 words of 486 total…may leave the message sign with ¡¥hacker¡¦ to the computer system after they destroy all the data. People then believe that this kind of destruction is done by the hackers. The main difference between hacker and cracker is hackers create things while crackers destroy things. Hackers want technology to be open. They make use of technology to solve problems. Crackers make use of technology to commit crime. We should know the difference between the two.