hacker stage
A human being who aims to become a hacker will typically pass through these stages: Mundane person He basically doesn't know anything about the hacking scene, even if he may have a computer and Internet access. The only things he knows about hackers is that they break computer systems and are criminals. Some of them write for the newspapers. Lamer One who confuses the hacking scene with different realities such as the warez scene. He has a very poor knowdlege of the whole thing, and try to impress mundane people with big words. His greatest achievement is to put a trojan (wrote by someone else, and of which he is totally clueless about how it works) in someone else's computer during an IRC or ICQ chat and delete their files. People that succeed in becoming hackers usually pass this stage very quickly, or might skip it at all. Wannabe A Wannabe hacker found out that hacking is much more than breaking into someone else's computer and it's rather a philosophy, or a way of ...
