One method of protecting your military networks from hackers is to use an operating system other than the ubiquitous Microsoft Windows (which controls over 85 percent of the market).
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can.axis
17 years 38 weeks 20 hours 20 min ago
hackers != crackers
RMS: "...You can help correct the misunderstanding simply by making a distinction between security breaking and hacking—by using the term "cracking" for security breaking. The people who do it are "crackers". Some of them may also be hackers, just as some of them may be chess players or golfers; most of them are not..." -- http://www.stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html
bogdanbiv
17 years 38 weeks 51 min 47 sec ago
hackers != crackers
I agree on the "hackers != crackers" issue.
Unfortunately the sentence "hacker is a mal/ill-wanting guy" seems to expand in laymen and laywomen circles. I find this is very unfortunately indeed.