Why do people have an aversion to hacking?

Question

Recently I asked a question on here that had to do with hacking, and I got as many downvotes as I got upvotes. Any time I comment about hacking, even if I specify ethical hacking, people always downvote. Is this because of movies, or is there another reason?

Answer 1

I'm a small developer, and I know how hard is to create projects specially if you are alone, It's takes hard-working plus lots of research.

Writing thousands lines of codes, debugging , handling updates, unwanted bug e.t.c.
This all things really sucks.

And there's comes a script kiddle, who has watched some YouTube toturials , seen few articles , grabbed some hacking tools and do some reverse-engineering stuff. So Congrats, now your years old project has been messed up by an hacker. How you feeling?

Ok it's really nice if his intention is to work for development team to find bug and vulnerability. But all this kids are trying to be look Cool.

Well I'm not against hacking, it's really helpful for some Fields. But it's not good to have this skills in wrong hands.

Answer 2

Unfortunately the many "hacking" related questions posted here revolves around inethical hacking, and sometimes that goes even where the poster explicitly mention ethical hacking. How ironic that is, I guess you know better.

And also, SoloLearn does not encourage inethical hacking or illegal activities. Although one may argue about legallity (cause it all was up to one's interests), most people here are into learning, and *probably* just don't favour much about such topic.

There are numerous places outside SoloLearn where anyone can learn, be it black or white magic.

Answer 3

Probably because it's often associated with illegal or unethical activity.

Answer 4

Hacking is actually done with HTML and Google Docs

Answer 5

Thomas Jan Markus gives a great answer on this. Not to mention you were rude to him on your last question and that probably affected the number of downvotes your received.

Answer 6

In addition to the perfectly valid answers given here the usage of word "hacking" in your questions propagates a wrong meaning of the word "hacker", which debases the whole hacker culture. See http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html.
You can also read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html though parts of it are more of a personal view of ESR

Read also this until enlightened: http://catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/script-kiddie.html

Answer 7

Thomas it's not that hard and easy to do reverse-engineering from hacking tools.
People only know how to use those things but don't have any clue what's happening inside. * It's a magic moment for them *

Answer 8

Jan Markus So people are just conditioned to think that anyone who mentions hacking doesnt know anything about hacking

Answer 9

Jan Markus Yeah ok.

Answer 10

Jan Markus Lol probably.

Answer 11

Maxwell Anderson That probably had something to do with it

Answer 12

On the contrary, there are databases upon databases of repos like github out there, where quite often, codes that i had been struggling with were already running on there.

I reverse their code in my environment, and i see how and why it works, and then the world doesnt look all that bad.

Funny thing, i took alot of complicated math in college, that i have no idea how to pay for right now, and all that code still looks like flying spaghetti monster!

Answer 13

0_O-[Mägár_Sám_Äkà_Nüllpøïntêr_Èxëcéptïön]~~ But yeah it is not a good tool in the wrong hands.

Answer 14

0_O-[Mägár_Sám_Äkà_Nüllpøïntêr_Èxëcéptïön]~~ Yeah I guess you are right.

Answer 15

Your intentions may be honorable, but the answers to such questions will be read by many users.
How do you want to control who you reach with such topics?

I suspect there are tons of people who would like to use such skills unethically, if they had the knowledge ...

Answer 16

Simple,
Because
Hacking
Is
Overrated.
In movies, they make it seem simple and easy like anyone who can code can hack into any system. It's more of an application of coding and fast typing which not everyone is familiar with.

Answer 17

Bro this is not a problem of movies but the people minds are set as hackers are not good and do bad things like expoliting theri privacy they don't know that hacker are also good the secure devices and the data in it also if there will be no white hat hackers who pentest the security of any device before it is launched in market then hacking devices will be a child play.

Answer 18

Jan Markus Your assumption was true😂

Answer 19

You just need to take more ESL classes, that's all. Then people wont hate your topics so much.

Answer 20

I was talking to Meher Ali