Week 12

For me hacker is a specialist, who uses a computer as a tool to solve problems and to achieve the goals.  Good hackers are creative, thinking outside the box, as well as they like what they do and love exploring new things. Being a hacker is a culture with its own ideas, ethic and values that were born a long time ago, however they are still modern. In this blog I will go through seven values of hacker ethic and analyse their applicability.

 Passion - if you do what you love to do, you will never get tired of that and you will always do it better. As  Linus Torvalds said: "Linux has very much been a hobby (but a serious one: the best type)", if your work is your hobby then it's not a work.

Freedom - today many people work according to given rules and instructions that seem trusted, which doesn't allow them to express their creativity, however the best ideas born when people have opportunity to do things differently

Hacker work ethic can be described by the sentence "the truth was born in debates", which is opposite to  "black-and-white" thinking. This approach helps hackers to look at the problem from different angles and to take the best features of two opposite things or points of view in order to create the one that will be universal.

Hacker money ethic - for hackers money is not the goal, but the tool. I think this approach is smart, because if money is  the goal, when you get them, you stop doing something, because you achieved your goal, but when money is a tool you won't be afraid of investing them into something that will bring you even more money in the future

Hacker network ethic - I agree that there should be always freedom of word and thought, but at the same time I don't think that there totally shouldn't be any restrictions. I think censorship should be only against too cruel or provocative content 

Creativity is where the hacker roots are.  Hacker's creativity is unlimited, especially when you look at the broad variety of attacks, systems and software developed by hackers.To Identify a Hacker, Treat Them Like a Burglar | WIRED

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