Donn Parker's Categories of Hacker [1]:
- benign
- - the hacker whose intentions are purely educational
- unsavory
- - the intruder whose intentions are not necessarily malicious but whose very presence can be
negative
- malicious
- - the intruder whose primary intention is to cause the system to crash or to wreck havoc in its
operation
[1] Parker, Donn, and John F. Maxfield. 1985. "The Nature and Extent of Electronic Computer Intrusion",
Workshop on Protection of Computer Systems and Software, National Science Foundation.
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