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    Hackers target security loopholes in IT systems for technical reasons, while crackers exploit weaknesses to gain illegal advantages, social attention, or respect. Crackers with privileged knowledge about an organization they attack are called insiders, who are often frustrated former employees that use their internal knowledge to harm that organization.

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    Hackers target security loopholes in IT systems for technical reasons, while crackers exploit weaknesses to gain illegal advantages, social attention, or respect. Crackers with privileged knowledge about an organization they attack are called insiders, who are often frustrated former employees that use their internal knowledge to harm that organization.

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    Hackers are regarded as being experimentally-minded programmers who target secur

    ityloopholes in IT systems for technical reasons.


    Crackers are people with criminal minds who exploit weak points of IT systems to
    gain illegaladvantages, social attention or respect. Crackers possessing privil
    eged knowledge about theorganization they are attacking are termed insiders . Insid
    ers are often frustrated (former)employees of an organization who use their know
    ledge of internal affairs to harm thatorganization.

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