Hacker is a term for a person or group of people who provide valuable contributions to the world of networks and operating systems, make for world aid programs and networks can also be categorized komputer.Hacker job is being done to find the weaknesses of a system and provide ideas or opinions that could improve the weaknesses discovery system.
Cracker
Meanwhile, cracker is a term for people who are looking for system weaknesses and enter it for private purposes and seek benefits from the system in enter such as: data theft, deletion, and many others.
Hierarchy / Rankings Hacker:
Hackers apparently also has levels, each level with the ability to differentiate and science that belongs to the hackers:
~ Elite ~
Characteristics: understand the operating system inside and out, able to configure and connect a global network, do programming every day, efficiently and expertly, using their knowledge properly, does not destroy data, and always follow the rules. Elite level is often referred to as the 'master'.
~ Semi Elite ~
Characteristics: younger than the elite, has the ability and extensive knowledge of computers, understand the operating system (including the hole), the ability of the program enough to change the program exploits.
~ Developed Kiddie ~
Characteristics : young age was in school, they read about hacking methods how on many occasions, tried different systems to ultimately succeed proclaiming victory to another, generally still use Graphic User Interface (GUI) just learning the basic of UNIX without being able to find a new hole in the operating system weaknesses.
~ Script Kiddie ~
Characteristics : such as kiddie as well developed as Lamers, they only have the technical knowledge networking which is very minimal, not separated from the GUI, hacking is carried out using a trojan to frighten and distress some Internet users live.
~ Lammer ~
Characteristics : don't have experience knowledge but want to be a hacker so that Lamer is often referred to as the 'Wanna-be' hackers, use their computers mainly for playing games, IRC, exchange prirate software, steal credit card, using hacking software trojan, nuke DOS, like brag about themselves through the IRC channel, and so forth. Since many shortcomings to achieve the elite, in its development, they will only be up to the level of developed or script kiddie kiddie course.
Crackers do not have a specific hierarchy because it is only uncover and damage