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...common misconception about hackers is that their sole intent is to defraud other people. However, there are those who hack purely for the challenge and the enjoyment of it. They generally do not have any malicious intent further than pranking the server they break into and perhaps turning some heads...
...prime example is the recent hack of the Harvard Lampoon's Web site by a Columbia University Marching Band member. No real permanent damage was done to the server on which the Lampoon's Web page resides, and the student's main goal was simply to play a joke on the Lampoon...
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Exploits are tiny programs that a hacker runs on a server to expose errors or bugs in a system. While this is a much more complicated way of hacking a Web site than through FTP, it is also much more powerful because it allows a person to hack servers that don't allow anonymous FTP access...
...writing the right programs and running them correctly, the most experienced hackers can usually hack into just about any server. This is a scary notion, because no matter how heavily protected one is against break-ins to the server, one can never be completely sure whether a hacker will run some program on the system that will expose a flaw in security...