Bigger Then You

[pdp]

You want to learn how to hack? Hacking is not about cracking into computer networks. It is bigger then that. It is a lifestyle, a survival trick. If you want to learn how to hack, then use your skills in a creative and constructive way. We hope that House of Hackers will help this community achieve exactly that.

In the course of the next few days, we will propose the House of Hackers community various kinds of creative, constructive projects which you can join in and do your thing.

[Rim3nX]

Great, just what I was about to propose

[soothsayer]

I am new ,I just want to be the one of the family

[pdp]

what do u mean?

[Isethoriginal]

I don't think so, our media has done avery good Job in getting the word Hacker equal to the word of criminal.
Nearly every week there is at least one newspaper article that teaches the common people with small computer knowledge about all that bad stuff that happens: where the "crimes" are usually bugs found out in the seventies, or some virus allerts (and even there they are not often up to date) made by all this bad hackers out there... Somehow it is a mix between something to cry about and something to laugh about.

[camilo]

At some point in time "Hacker" will be a synonym of "Person with a computer"

[pdp]

well, I guess we shape the world we are living in. at some point in time "hacker" was a synonim of a "cabdriver".

[Isethoriginal]

That's somehow depressing, if there were a definitive official definition it would have been interesting to find it on a place like this, made for hackers...

[pdp]

Isethoriginal, I believe that it really depends. my definition is very broad, for example.

[Walas]

Yeah i hope there will be some PHP projects too :D

[Isethoriginal]

geez, so much to learn and so few time for it, i hardly catch up with the news. I was just wondering.. is there a official definition for hacker, or does it really just depend on who you're asking?