Hacking

Hackerbit is the programmer's source of inspiration, advice and the much needed motivation to embark on this self fulfilling journey of hacking.

Who is a Hacker

“There is a community a shared culture of expert programmers and networking wizards that traces its history back through decades to the first timesharing minicomputers and the earliest ARPAnet experiments. The members of this movement originated the term hacker.

Hackers built the Internet, hackers made the Unix Operating System what it is today. Hackers make the world wide web work. If you are part of this culture, if you contributed to it and other people in it know who you are and call you a hacker, you are a hacker ” Eric S. Raymonds (Renowned Hacker)

This extract from How To Become a Hacker (Interesting Read) by Eric S. Raymonds, author of Cathedral and the Bazaar explains it all.

Eric Raymonds goes on to say  “There is another group of people who loudly call themselves hackers but aren't . There are people (mainly adolescent males) who get a kick out of breaking into computers and freaking the phone system.

Real hackers call these people crackers and want nothing to do with them. Real hackers mostly think crackers are lazy, irresponsible and not very bright and object that being able to hot wire cars makes you an automotive engineer. Unfortunately, many journalists and writers have been fooled into using the word hacker to describe crackers. The basic difference is this;

Hackers build things, crackers break them”

Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation also has an interesting piece on the origins of hacking.

What Hacker-bits aims to do

We will bring to focus the top hackers in our communities and  interview them on their profession.

Get to learn best practices, latest technologies  and more.

Hacker-bits  promises to be fun, revealing and  educational.

If you know a hacker who you want to be featured on Hacker-bits, please send an email to crg.mabrey@gmail.com to recommend that hacker.

NB:

You cannot recommend yourself to be featured on Hacker-bits.