Demystifying Hacking

     Hacking - what comes to your mind upon hearing this word? Stealing information? Sniffing through a network? or nuking other people's computers? or rather some other cooler things. Well, you'd better think wisely.

     Hacking is apparently the word pertaining to the activity of a hacker. But first, what is a hacker? Are they simply thieves and culprits in the cyberworld? Of course not. Hackers are the ones that made you read this blog. They are the ones who invented the world wide web and other wonderful things. With their combined efforts, data all around the world have been able to travel ceaselessly.
     So what actually is hacking? Just as the way hackers deviced the complication of networks, it is as simple as solving problems. Yes, hacking is an innovative yet different way of creating solutions to problems. Through the concept of hacking, hackers developed the cyberworld from simple bits up to interactive operating systems.
     Through its endless development, hacking has evolved and had continued to become more complicated and obscure, confusing those who hear about it. In this progress, sorts of hackers have aroused in the society of hackerdom, each with their own agenda: The Black Hats, are hackers under unjust intent and do hacking for no good. The White Hats, those who do hack for development, looking for vulnerabilities and other expected possibilities. And (I don't think there are still others) the so called Gray Hats, or the ones with neutrality.
     The most common issue about hacking is that it is commonly confused with cracking, which is actually a different matter. That's why hacking has always been mistaken as an act of something about stealing, or sniffing just as I said in the beginning which is the primary goal of cracking.