Hackers and crackers

its called greyhat. the article is incorrect though. the original terms are hackers and crackers.

the lowest level cracker is a scriptkiddie, but now we got an even lower lifeform, vibe coders.

hackers hack code. make software that runs the worlds servers and websites and programs and computer games. to "hack" also involves optimization, which with the unreal engine doesnt exist anymore. the more bloated games the better. 500gb install? no problem. 5fps on a 5000$ system? no problem, lets use ai to auto upscale and increase framerate, eventhough the game isnt playable nor looks good then. crackers "crack" security (and they surely got that name for their favourite stimulant, crack cocaine).

pirates are crackers. and just like IRL pirates, they have no scrupels whatsoever. to this day, pirate bay is shockful of casino and pornads, just like bittorent clients were in the past.

hackers do not look down on high quality crackers though. like ones who can get past high level security with 1 kilobyte of code written in assembly, decimal, or even binary. do note that hackers rule the world, they can basically nuke the entire internet (and control nuclear weapons) if they want to. they arent malicious unless you are.

also, a new common phenomena. javascriptkiddies. these are the scum of the earth. without them, we could very well surf the modern internet on a 56k modem. for some reason we need 1785714 higher connection speed to download some text and 50kb jpgs at respectable speed. this is also refered to as bloatware, and creeping featuritis.