Sunday, October 14, 2012

Topic 9, part 2 - The Hacker Ethic in a Networked World

Week 5 (October 8-14), topic 9 part2
Write a short blogged analysis about the hacker ethic found in today's world (is it there of not, how much of it etc).

 For me are hackers clever programmers, who are "playing with cleverness" - sounds almost same as RMS said - "playful cleverness".

I guess, that current hacker ethics in today's world corresponds to Hacker howto  written by ESR. Hackers are skilled programmers, who are wroting code and sharing it (GitHub and other similar places). I realized, that most important is the "social machine" (hackers and their relationships with each other) around the code, not only code itself.

I would also say, that increasing hacker ethics and culture seems to be key requirement for efficient, well programmed and secure world in the future. Therefore such activities like Hacker Highschool, Codecademy, Google Summer Code etc are very welcome phenomenons in our information society.

 Often people say, that hackers are bad guys. Actually hackers are just good guys, who likes programming in very passionate way and they don't use their skills in bad ways. We can expect from hackers only penetration tests and then they definitely will tell to test subscriber, what were wrong and will fix it. So hackers are earning some additional income in very legal way.

 Crackers are often paid but also unpaid criminals, who are using their skills in bad way and there is nothing to do with hacker ethics. There is one movie "Web warriors" (also in Estonian) in example, what might happen when teenager will mix being hacker or cracker.

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Internet - working and living environment for hackers:

Internet map based on ping (from Wikipedia)
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