Hacker or Cracker?

[marcus53002]

I was under the impression that program writers and IT security professionals were considered hackers.Individuals who break into sites or puters for malicous purposes were crackers.Lets clear this up...thx

[©opy®ight]

it is like that .....or depends what kind of hacker, white hat, gray hat or black hat ?

[cacosapo]

Hacker and Cracker are diferent. However, nowadays press mix up both and everybody is using the term "hacker" as a bad adjective. No one in world can revert that

[nihil]

Please understand that this is my view.............I am not contradicting any of the previous posts.

In my day, a "hacker" was someone who could get things done, outside of the "rules"

A "cracker" on the other hand, sought access to sotware codes?

I believe that the Media have take these terms an distorted them?

just my opinion