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Slashdot | Adrian Lamo ong Hacking @ Page 26 of 33 Re: Why do they do it? by Sycraft-fu (Score:2) Saturday September 06, @11:59AM Re: Why do they do it? by buttahead (Score:2) Saturday September 06, @12:59PM Re: Why do they do it? by Caeldan (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @01:28PM Re:Why do they do it? by RzUpAnmsCwrds (Score:2) Saturday September 06, @07:40PM Re:Why do they do it? by eddie can read (Score:1) Sunday September 07, @04:09AM *® 3replies beneath your current threshold. enee « No more bullshitting. by Henry Stern (Score:2) Saturday September 06, @11:16AM @ Lreply beneath your current threshold. Hacker the Gray (Score:5, Funny) by AppHack (622902) on Saturday September 06, @11:18AM (#6887289) So he's a gray hat hacker who has fallen into shadow. Will he come back as a white hat hacker, more powerful than before? [ Reply to This } lotr jokes ... by krumms (Score:2) Saturday September 06, @12:32PM + MS upset at free choice?? by Martigan80 (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @11:194M. « Re:MS upset at fiee choice?? by Hatta (Score:2) Saturday September 06, @12:35PM. « Run. Just get out of here... by Jerk City Troll (Score:1) Saturday September 06, @11:20AM Dialectic (Score:5, Insightful) by Henry V_.009 (518000) <marstrail AT hotmail DOT com> on Saturday September 06, @11:22AM (#6887313) (http://thrasymachus.typepad.comy/thras/ | Last Journal: Monday August 11, @12:39PM) Everyone enjoys comparing hacking to breaking into someone's house or trespassing on private property. It is not. You cannot be ‘inside’ someone else's server. (It is doubly impossible given the girth of most hackers.) The physical definitions fall apart. And the metaphorical analogies do not mesh physical property and Turing machines so well. We can begin with what we do know for sure about hacking. A hacking incident is when someone sends packets of information (in some form and by some medium) from a computer or computers to someone else's computer or computers. Which packets are illegal and which are not? Any exact definition raises problems. You can say that any packets that change the functioning of the target system in an unintended way is hacking. So the ignorance of the owner becomes the limit of what is or is not hacking. Faking an email address on a badly designed sign up page (or using mailinator) might be hacking under that definition. Other definitions are similarly problematic. Currently our legal system tends to defauit (once it actually gets to jury trial) to the above definition, but (in effect) adds that the act must be highly technical and use specialized tools. (Other definitions exist, and J am of course willing to bust holes in any particular one you cate to suggest--so go ahead and suggest them.) FBI(19-cv-1495)-1918 hitp://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/06/1325221 shiml?tid=123 &tid=126 &tid=172&tid=99 9/8/2003