Hacking

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First, the hacker runs the prefix scanner, usually at night, to get a list of dial-ups, phone numbers that contain carriers. Once he has dials-ups, he has places to explore. Next he uses his terminal to dial-up the carriers. When he connects to the network, he will need to gain entrance to it. The hacker uses his password cracker to find a suitable user name and password. The password cracker does not always work, so the hacker is forced to use a technique called "brute force" . This is where the hacker randomly tries different user names and passwords to gain access to the network. Once inside the network, the hacker "goes to work". He will search the network for anything useful. Before he leaves the system, he will leave a backdoor, or in other words, a glitch, so he can gain access again.
A hacker named Mentor says it the best in his writing called "Mentor's Last Words: A Hacker's Manifesto":
"This is our world now… the world of the electron and the switch, the ...

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