Monday, September 1, 2014
The difference between hacking and cracking :
Hacking, and cracking. Two different forms of Internet and computer related
privacy and copyright breaches, usually malicious. I’ll be discussing the
differences between hacking, and cracking. They are two completely different
things, but people usually get confused between the two, they both end with a
similar sound, or ‘acking’ (that’s probably why!) and they’re both malicious
forms of cyber activity.
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Let’s start off by explaining what the words mean,
in computer vocabulary – that is. Hacking, is the act of stealing personal or
private data, without the owner’s knowledge or consent, it could also include
other things like stealing passwords, creating a bot net, or pretty much any
act that breaches someone’s privacy, without their knowledge, or consent.
Now, on to cracking. Cracking is where edit a
program’s source code, or you could create a program, like a key generator
(more commonly known as a ‘keygen’), patch, or some sort of application that
tricks an application in to thinking that a particular process has occurred.
For example, a key generator and a patch for the Adobe Master Collection would
trick the software in to thinking that the key entered is correct, and not let
it verify the key with the Adobe master server. Cracking is pretty much looking
for a back door in software, and exploiting it for malicious use or for a
copyright breaching act.
The difference (if you have not noticed it yet) is
that a hacker is someone that uses their extensive knowledge of computer logic
and code for malicious purposes, while a cracker – looks for back doors in
programs, and exploits those back doors. Cracking is generally less harmful
than hacking. Hackers are usually involved with web related hacking, like MySQL
interception, or phishing, other forms of hacking would include things like
brute force, or password lifting.
Well, the difference is simple. One is more
malicious than the other, crackers usually have an extensive knowledge in code
related to Python and .NET (Visual Basic, C, C++, C#) and Objective C (Mac),
while hackers are fluent in different forms of web code, like PHP, MySQL, Java
Script , Ajax, and HTML and CSS. I hope, after reading this, we all have got
what the difference between hacking, and cracking are. Basically, it’s just
what they do, that’s the difference.
