Hey , Mike . You've been surfing the Net for quite a while . What on earth are you searching for ?
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user
It's something relative hackers . I often hear people talking about them , but I don't know much about them .
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assistant
Well , roughly speaking , a hacker is a computer buff .
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user
You mean a guy using enthusiastic and knowledgeable about the computer ?
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assistant
You can say that .
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user
But why are people always having such a negative attitude towards them ?
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assistant
They must have mixed hackers with crackers .
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user
What is crackers then ?
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assistant
There is another group of people who loudly call themselves hackers , but they aren't . They break into computers and break the phone system . Real hackers call these people crackers , and want nothing to do with them .
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user
So they are two totally different concepts .
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assistant
Well , the real hackers mostly think crackers are lazy , irresponsible and not very bright , and feel that being able to break security does make you a hacker any more than being able to start cars without keys makes you an automotive engineer . Unfortunately , many journalists and writers have been fooled into using the word hacker to describe crackers . This irritates real hackers to no end .
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user
I see . Then the basic different is , hackers build things , crackers break them .
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assistant
You got it .
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user
Thanks a lot .
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