Do I have to? I really don't want to, but apparently I do. I am not a cracker. Those who try to fuck around with programs to a)make them free, b)make then easier to beat, or c) try to steal stuff from other users of a program are not hackers.
Hackers are defined as:
"1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. 2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming. 3. A person capable of appreciating hack value. 4. A person who is good at programming quickly. 5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in `a Unix hacker'. (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.) 6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy hacker, for example"
A cracker is:
"One who breaks security on a system. Coined ca. 1985 by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse of hacker (q.v., sense 8). An earlier attempt to establish `worm' in this sense around 1981-82 on Usenet was largely a failure. "
Learn the difference. to create a program to steal another persons password is to crack the previously mentioned program. That is not hacking. I am not a cracker. I am not a skript kiddie. I am a small time hacker who is learning slowly. I will not provide anyone, not even my closest friends, with a way to circumvent protections, steal passwords, credit cards or cheat a programmer who has sweat their lives to make something great.
If you want to do that, do it yourself, be at least man(or woman) enough to do it yourself and take pride in your work. If you ask me, be it via email, in comments of in my BlogChat I will, without a doubt or a care, boot you, ignore you and report you. Take this as the one and the only warning you will receive. Ask anymore, and you will regret it to the nth degree.
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