The art of hacking in a technological world is generally a negative thing. To hack into something, usually means a breach in security and some form of data altered. However, hacking, and being particularly skilled at it, can pay off – if the skills are used appropriately.
Shane Kelly, age 16, became the world’s youngest person to pass the Certified Ethical Hacker course. Because of his dedication and precision, there are some big people very interested in utilizing his mad skills.
Hacks can be used for good! Programming something to “hack” into a problem you’re encountering, like with say your website development or network. Hacking can be viewed as a positive thing, and quite frankly, the biggest networks and programs are developed by hackers. You have to know how to get into it to be able to prevent access to it, right?
Now, by no means am I saying that it is okay to hack into someone else’s property, or copyrighted works like programs and applications, but hacking should not always be viewed as illegal. Take those skills and go work for someone who can really benefit from them. Internet companies, software companies, police departments. Fight crime! Slip into your bat-suit and get involved in the criminal investigation sector of a police department. After all, they are likely to more fully utilize your hacking super-powers (and you’d get paid for it).
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October 7th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Ugh, I would have thought that ArsGeek would be one site that would get the distinction correct: Hacking utilizes only your own hardware and software assets in an effort to learn about computer systems, whereas cracking is done on other peoples’ systems, either benignly or maliciously. Anything that would be “bad hacking” is actually “cracking”.
October 7th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
I wish people would stop saying Hacking is breaking security, its a insult to the hacking community. Hacking is about finding new or better uses for what you have.
October 8th, 2008 at 3:18 am
uggh.. stop hacking..
hacking sometimes an art .
October 8th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Glad to have you back on the air Ben,
was wondering if you had dropped off the side of the planet or something.
October 12th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
It’s not Ben
October 14th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Hack has several meanings in the technology and computer science fields. It may refer to a clever or quick fix to a computer program problem, or to a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem.
October 14th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Well Whoever posted that – still makes me wonder what happened – there has really been no new posts in nearly 2 weeks
October 14th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Hack means one thing to the tech community, and another completely different thing to the casual computer-user world. The intelligent efforts of hackers should be better relayed.
October 16th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
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October 20th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
I am seaching for some idea to write in my blog… somehow come to your blog. best of luck. Eugene
October 28th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Arsgeek what happened to your blog?
October 29th, 2008 at 10:20 am
I believe the site was sold a little while ago. The guy who made this site is working on another project. Dawm above may know more.
November 26th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
you has several meanings in the technology and computer science fields. It may refer to a clever or quick fix to a computer program problem, or to a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem.
December 1st, 2008 at 6:56 pm
I have to agree with Chris Beach here: part of the problem is that people don’t understand the distinction between “hacking” and “cracking”. Hacking is using creativity to work around problems (and to find problems in the first place), cracking is the “art” of maliciously breaching security to gain access to private systems (even if your malice is no greater than an intent to leave a “hi, you really should patch this up” in the root user’s home folder!
Hackers created the internet. Hell, hackers created modern computing in general, by using their skills to surpass problems that were deemed insurmountable at the time…. it’s just sad that popular culture has turned the word “hacker” into a red flag.
December 18th, 2008 at 3:06 am
Hack means one thing to the tech community, and another completely different thing to the casual computer-user world. you has several meanings in the technology and computer science fields
January 1st, 2009 at 6:06 pm
cracking is an art finally i make up for not being able to draw
March 20th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
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October 6th, 2009 at 4:13 am
I would love to learn the art of hacking.. wow
I’ll hack google first 
ha ha but its impossible na?
Rohit Tripathi
January 18th, 2011 at 11:29 pm
Nowadays a lot of people claim to be hackers but they are just script kiddies.Hacker is someone who devices his own methods..they are like inventors
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