Hacking, while portrayed by the popular media as a criminal activity, is explained by hackers as an exploration of systems, how they work, how different but connected systems interact, what methods are there to protect systems and the effectiveness of these methods. The criminal activity of hacking with intent of information retrieval (identity theft, software piracy, etc.) is known, at least in the hacker community, as cracking.

In the other pages that comprise this website, I aim to show how Hackers, through their work, help give a safer computing experience for regular users. I will show how the congregation of Hackers helps disseminate security information, how a Hacker is more likely to find bugs in software than a regular user or a developer, and how the concept of having users be debuggers can be applied in ways that are not in the legal gray area.