Anonymous vs Police?

First, we'll start with some definitions to view differences between a hacker and a vandal.

A vandal (same as life out-computers) is a person who hurts or damages without a reason. He/She has no sense of honour or ethic. Just breaking things for his/her own enjoy.

There are thieves too (same as life out-computers) who breaks into systems to steal money or other things.

Last of all, there are hackers as a group: hackers, crackers, samurai, phreakers... each group has different objectives to study and/or work.

Today we will not study differences between them, we only try to view differences between a vandal (called "lammers" by most hackers) or thief and a hacker.

There is a only one reason to be a vandal, breaking things to enjoy doing it.

Hackers have lots of reasons to do all they do:

- Some of them works to find security holes in computer companies and report them to the company in order to fix that hole. (Most of them are working for this company, they are called "whitehat hackers")

- Others use their knowledge to find security holes and exploit them against a company to protest against any reason related to this company (they are "blackhat hackers")

- Others use their expertise to find those security holes in order to uncover tracks or evidences in order to help to police to do their work.

- Others only are trying to improve their knowledge, finding security holes on random web sites or company servers, only to study WITHOUT doing any bad action (they are "wannabes").

I would really want to have the chance to explain that to police in all countries all over the world, due all security forces in the world are confusing hackers with vandals.



We must remember the SGAE judicial case, some hackers uncovered many evidences from SGAE and sent it to spanish security forces.

One of my most favourite websites in the www is "The Hacker News", their motto is "Truth is the most powerful weapon against injustice"

I remember another one from the Linux BackTrack distribution (the one that I'm using right now) "The quieter you become the more able you will able to hear"

I think this two mottos could describe differences between hackers and lammers/vandals.

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