What is a hacker?
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Hacker? I spend a lot of time on the Internet - and I am not ashamed to admit it. And the question that I get asked the most by people is "Are you a hacker?" Well, that question has been bugging me ever since. Just what exactly is a hacker? A REAL hacker? For those who don't know better, the news and media have blown it way out of proportion... A hacker, by wrong-definition, can be anything from a computer-user to someone who destroys everything they can get their evil terminals into. The idiotic schmucks of the world who get a brand new computer for Christmas then discover that they can download games and copy CD's haven't helped hackers' reputations a damn bit. They somehow get access to a really cool system or find a website with some files on hacking... Or maybe a friendly but not-too-cautious hacker helps the loser out, gives...

