First, let’s get one thing perfectly clear: A hacker would never want your account. As a matter of fact, hackers do not want anyone’s account.
Hackers do not break into bank accounts, seek to topple the government or write the viruses that make your life miserable. They don’t speak in l33t, break into computers or vandalize websites.
Believe it or not, they aren’t interested in the slightest in doing any of these things, and get kind of insulted when people keep saying that they do.
For quite some time now there has been a great deal of confusion among Neopians (and indeed some of the Neopets Staff themselves) about what, exactly, a hacker is. I will admit that even to myself it can be a confusing topic, but my goal with this article is to clarify the difference between the words ‘hacker’ and ‘cracker’ while briefly touching on ‘scammers’ and ‘script kiddies’ since they relate to the topic at hand. For starters, let’s look at a few definitions from The Jargon File (version 4.4.7):
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