te that a cracker's level of education/intelligence on the system and its inner workings ect. is very low.The hacker on the other hand is an individual who yearns for knowledge. The hackers are very knowledgeable individuals. They often times know several programming languages, work extensively with the inwards and outwards of UNIX, have a firm understanding of all the TCP/IP implementations and protocols. They keep abreast on all security related issues involving computers. Breaking into a system for a hacker is a thrill, it is a challenge that they take on. The hacker takes much delight in exploring the system from the outside/inside searching vigorously for misconfigurations, bugs, and holes in the operating system that would allow them to break into the machine. Once in the system the challenge had been completed and they have succeeded in breaking in. It is against hacker ethics to alter any data aside from the logs that are needed to clean their tracks. They have no need or desire to destroy data as the malicious crackers. They are there to explore the system and learn more. The hacker has a constant yearning and thirst for knowledge that increases in intensity as their journey progresses.Nottingham 10GlossaryAnti-virus protectionUsually a program that searches for known viruses and then destroys themAssembly level programmingMost difficult way to program. See CODE for exampleCodeViruses are written with code like this:pushbpmovbp, splesbx, [bp+4]movcx, [bp+8]movax, 0A working virus would have hundreds of lines like thisCompiled Compiling changes the "words" seen in CODE to the ones and zero that a computer understandsDataThe information on a computer. Files, directories, ect.Hard driveThe memory [storage] of a computerFormattingDeletion of all dataSource code Same as CODEWriting random sectorsOverwriting random spots on the hard drive to resulting in corrupt filesNottingham 11Virus writerSince computer viruses are pro...
