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Security: What is a Hacker? How do they think?

I’ve been wanting to write up my own definition of this for ages, but then I found this from Security Guru, Bruce Schneier. There’s no way I can say it better. Below is an extract, but I recommend that you read the whole thing.

A hacker is someone who thinks outside the box. It’s someone who discards conventional wisdom, and does something else instead. It’s someone who looks at the edge and wonders what’s beyond. It’s someone who sees a set of rules and wonders what happens if you don’t follow them. A hacker is someone who experiments with the limitations of systems for intellectual curiosity.

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