What is Cracker, Phreakin, Lammer

Every human ensemble has its own jargon and way of speaking; Masons have their degrees and their conventions to designate certain forms, behaviors, or members or non-members of their community. Members of any religion have their own way of appointing the faithful, those who live in a monastic way or hold any religious office, or non-believers.

Despite the fact that many times, the media communication have used the terms hacker and hacking very happily and without stopping to analyze the greater depth of the matter, the truth is that the hacker community has a very rich and diverse vocabulary to refer to its members, as rich as diversity there are "ladders" and profiles in it.

So, to shed some light on the matter, let's examine the different members of the diverse fauna of the hacker world. And, for this, we will start with the

newbie, which is nothing more than the apprentice of hacker

Someone with the interest and ability to become a hacker later, but what should learn concepts and practice.

No one is born knowing and, therefore, we all go through a period of learning, about life itself and various subjects that, if we do it well, actually last our whole life.

A newbie He is predisposed, eager to learn and always receives lessons, advice and help from the community.

A lick would be the newbie that, without having completed their learning or having the skills to be a true hacker, goes through life presuming to be

Usually, he has learned enough to use some of the tools of the world. hacker and, yes, his knowledge is superior to that of most users, but he will never be skilled enough to become a true hacker.

In the environments of hacking The use of this term derogatory when referring to a person is considered an insult.

The phreakerit's a hacker specialized in the operation of telephones

The origin of the term is not found in modern smartphonesIt is older, but it survives in our times.

Thanks to their knowledge, phreakers They are capable of building electronic devices that allow them to interact with the telephone network, make free calls or intercept calls, among other uses.

The cracker is the dark side of the hacker, the one who uses his knowledge to create software malicious and sneak into other people's computer systems for their own benefit

It would come to be, to understand us, a cybercriminal.

They are the ones that produce computer viruses that can infect you computer and destroy your information, or encrypt it to ask for a ransom for it, sneak into your computer or do any "mischief". It would be the opposite of a Jedi in the Star Wars saga.

hacker, the highest echelon in this particular world, a word that designates a true master who knows all the secrets of computer science,

Although this definition has been applied mostly to the field of Informatic security.

The hacker is not, in principle, neither good nor bad, he is simply someone with a high degree of knowledge, but in opposition to the cracker "Bad" has been approved as "good" in many cases.

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