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Re:The NSA Is Hoarding Vulnerabilities by nickthemagicman on Friday August 26, 2016 @01:25PM (#12367780)
Whats the distinction between hacking and cracking?
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Re:The NSA Is Hoarding Vulnerabilities by mastax on Friday August 26, 2016 @01:36PM (#12367858)
Some would like to promote 'hacking' as screwing around with things for fun/learning and 'hacking' as digital breaking and entering. Seems like an uphill battle to me but its probsbly useful to have a distinction.
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