The Hacker's Ethic
The ethic of the hacker was born at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): it’s moral and philosophical values that hackers must have to adhere.
This is what differentiates hackers who seek to defend themselves from pirates who seek to harm others. The nuance is important.
THE ETHIC OF HACKING (ethical hacking)
Journalist Steven Levy is the first to use the term ethical hacker in his book called Hackers. He also defined the following rules:
• The access to anything that could teach you something about how the world works should be unlimited and total.
• The information should be free.
• Do not trust authority, prefer decentralization.
• Hackers should be judged on their exploits and not on criteria such as age, origin, sex, diploma etc ...
• You can create art and beauty with a computer.
• Computers can improve your life.
He also asks the society to open up its worldview on hackers and expand it to the planet and not just reduce it to the little computer genius. He is followed later by the hacker Loyd Blankenship who defines the hacker's manifesto
Initially, the term "ethical hacker" was used to refer to a real hacker who secures computer systems and not to an “IT pirate”.
WHY PUT YOURSELF IN THE SHOES OF AN ATTACKER?
Hacking helps solve problems in many areas. In programming for example, we don’t reinvent the wheel, we access the details of a system to build something useful and effective.
IT security hacking makes possible to secure one's own systems and online privacy by first understanding how attacks work.
From there, the ethical hacker also known as the hacker in the white hat is thus put himself in the skin of a pirate to understand how he acts, and protect himself.
That’s "offensive security".
The approach, inspired by fire safety training, is a standard in the hacking industry:
We present a technique inspired by a real case, we explain it and put it into practice in order to understand the operating principles, and finally we protect ourselves against it.
The approach is the same for the police: we learn the techniques of thieves to catch them more easily.
=> Present, understand, protect.
Note: Putting the attacks into practice to understand them presents a potential danger related to the malicious people who would use the information to their advantage. As a result, my Steemit-Blog will not provide public details that could lead to illegal actions.
Besides, I have a revelation for you right now:
It is often thought that a IT pirate is a geek person, gifted and nomadic.
But actually, once you know their little secrets, you realize that all this doesn’t require a depth knowledge, and that you can defend yourself by applying simple and methodical concepts
That’s all for the ehic of hacker and for the diverse types oh hacker you could get to meet.
An easy way to reduce your chance to be hacked is to use the double authentification
If you think that you have already been hacked, you should read this post (the Trojan is the worst virus for me so be sure to have read this post too!)
WARNING! The comment below by @yeico leads to a known phishing site that could steal your account.
Do not open links from users you do not trust. Do not provide your private keys to any third party websites.
I'm pretty sure that you will be the main Security Guy on steemit :D Great post :D
I won't have that claim but thank you so much man! :D
Interesting read, thanks for posting.
Thank you for reading my posts!
There are two kinds of hackers: White hats and people who can really hack. You are a fool if you believe in "ethical hacking", sometimes you need to throw your ethics out the window if you want to be able to show how much damage an advisory can do to an organization.
At the beginning of what I call hacking, the purpose of a hacker was not to "show how much damage" he can do.. It's all depend of the moral and the will of the hacker. And the firsts hacker do not learn how to make damages to an organization but to build the numeric universe by resolving problems
You are not a hacker, you can't talk about hacking, you don't know what you are talking about.
You should write an article about: How to be a wannabe hacker instead.
I won't said that I'm a good hacker but I know the basis and I have 2 good friends who are in master of programming at the university and that I always consult to have their opinion. They don't have either your point of view.
So, for you, a hacker is in all cases someone who act illegally for his own purpose?
Just remember that legal does not mean ethical and ethical does not mean legal. Same goes for morality. Just cause something is moral doesn't mean it is legal, also just cause something is legal doesn't mean it is moral. I'm really caught in between and I don't know where to find myself, this is the condition of the hacker, your life it outside of the mainstream and we are horribly misunderstood and under appreciated.
Yes I totally agree with you, it's not linked but it can be per moment! And that's always hard for hacker to experience his skills in a legal way and to prove his value in this field... But for me, I prefer to be outside of the mainstream. I have taken the red pill and you?
Haha I think I took both pills