Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 8th Nov 2005 07:56 UTC, submitted by Not_Today
Black-hat hackers often use a bundle of tools called a rootkit to secure access to your machine and cover their tracks. When working on your computer, they need to store files and be sure that you will not stumble across them and get suspicious. Peter Hickman explains how this works.
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2005-07-06
Irregardless, the average person could care less. It seems that the population has decided on mass that, for all intensive purposes, "hacker" means someone who breaks into computers. Of course, died in the whool geeks will protest that defining terms by common opinion is taking the easy rowt.