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[abcgood]

Do you know any cybercrime?
Some hackers steal credit card numbers, confidential information.
They sell these information.
They can get many people personal information.
They infiltrate website and do something illegal.

[technomaniac_tzp]

That's nothing new dude. Anyways, they are called crackers not hackers. Hackers are good people
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[keeeeen]

We also think that there is an obligation to do the method of defending the
computer from their attacks.

It is necessary to do measures such as putting the firewall that do not use not writing individual information, and the credit card so much.

[cntryboi347]

Actually crackers and hackers are bad guys

[ebb]

Actually, "hacker" in English is ambiguous. In ye olden days, the term referred simply to someone who was adept with computers, especially programming: we still say "to hack a piece of code," meaning to write the computer code.

Since the advent of the Internet, the term has acquired a pejorative connotation, meaning someone who wrongfully breaks into (or "hacks") computer systems. But computer aficionados still use the term sometimes in its original meaning: just someone who hacks around with software. Among programmers themselves, the term may be ameliorative and fraternal ("He's a decent hacker but needs to exercise more discipline with his code structure.")

Incidentally, the English noun (note: the noun form) "hack" is closely related, as is the adjectival form. You may want to look these up. Interestingly, these also carry pejorative connotations.

BTW, ambiguities in nuance like this are very common in English; don't know about other languages, but I suspect English is one of the worst about this.
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