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A security hacker or security researcher is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network. [1] Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, information gathering, [2] challenge, recreation, [3] or evaluation of a system weaknesses to assist in formulating defenses against potential hackers.
Richard D. Greenblatt (born December 25, 1944) is an American computer programmer.Along with Bill Gosper, he may be considered to have founded the hacker community, [1] and holds a place of distinction in the communities of the programming language Lisp and of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
This category is for pages related to the computer security definition of hacking. Individual hackers and hacking groups should be categorized into related categories. Individual hackers and hacking groups should be categorized into related categories.
A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who achieves goals by non-standard means. The term has become associated in popular culture with a security hacker – someone with knowledge of bugs or exploits to break into computer systems and access data which would otherwise be inaccessible to them.
2GL—Second-Generation Programming Language; 2NF—Second Normal Form; 3GL—Third-Generation Programming Language; 3GPP—3rd Generation Partnership Project – 3G comms; 3GPP2—3rd Generation Partnership Project 2; 3NF—Third Normal Form; 386—Intel 80386 processor; 486—Intel 80486 processor; 4B5BLF—4-bit 5-bit Local Fiber
The Jargon File is a glossary and usage dictionary of slang used by computer programmers.The original Jargon File was a collection of terms from technical cultures such as the MIT AI Lab, the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) and others of the old ARPANET AI/LISP/PDP-10 communities, including Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), Carnegie Mellon University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
HACK (tag), a tag in a programming language comment warning about a workaround; Hack computer, a virtual computer described in the textbook The Elements of Computing Systems; Hack (typeface), an open source typeface designed for source code editing; Domain hack, a domain name that suggests a word, phrase, or name
Hacker culture, activity within the computer programmer subculture; Security hacker, someone who breaches defenses in a computer system Cybercrime, which involves security hacking; Phone hacking, gaining unauthorized access to phones; ROM hacking, the process of modifying a video game's program image