Thanks to the recent activity of mass-media on the subject (that popularized the wrong term for a cracker – a ‘hacker’), nowadays every educated person more or less understands the reasons and goals that stand behind malicious cracking: curiosity, stealing of information, making damage, showing self-importance to the world, etc. Although it is widely accepted that activity of the latter is often illegal, most of the time they depend on exactly the same tools that can be used for perfectly legitimate network administration – just like a kitchen knife that can be used maliciously. Scanning of computer networks (searching for addresses with known properties) is a practice that is often used by both network administrators and crackers.
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