In many cases, if someone wants a small adhesive bandage asks a pavement. If you want to clean a cotton swab in their ears, take a Q-Tip. If they want a drink they call a Coca-Cola-Cola. If you want a scarf take a Kleenex.
In some cases, it is because these people actually prefer this particular brand. But mostly it is because these brands have. Well with the type of products they represent
Especially through proper marketing, these products have become household names and are used almost exclusively, if not interchangeable, with respect to the products they represent.
While Coca-Cola rather buy a real Coca Cola, I'm sure you do not mind, because they are so deeply rooted in American culture, which means drinking Coca Cola flavored soda. Dear Kleenex facial tissue-specific buy your product, but you probably called a laugh from people who Kleenex and Puffs facial tissues.
There are many examples of this phenomenon. As you can see, most the result of good marketing and quality of products and probably as a good thing, "adopted" by the owners of the brand.
In the world of computer and network security, we have a word like that to pirate. Pirate purists get their ruffled this misappropriation of his featherweight title. By its simplest definition, it seems that "hacker" refers to someone who uses his knowledge and experience in the computer to access a computer or network. In general, the access is not permitted.
Arguments abound on the Internet, why hackers are good guys who use their curiosity and knowledge to explore the functioning of different things and not vicious DoS initiator Punks credit card number to steal the term has become synonymous of.
O'Reilly publishes a series of books that support this definition. The book Mac OS X Hacks has absolutely nothing with how a system Mac OS X is a book with tips and tricks on how to deepen the inner workings of the operating system and make it do what you want to do is attack. Google Hacks book will not teach someone how to enter the page Google.com. It is more like a manual on how to effectively use Google to obtain the desired information.
That may be true, or at least a simple definition of the term hacker. Unfortunately for purists who are disturbed by the widespread use of "hacker" on all types of malicious cyber criminals obtain their not likely to change.
The media have adopted the term hacker for this purpose a long time ago and has become mainstream and understood the most, relate imaginable to most types of Internet cyber criminals and villains.
Many argue that the hackers are good and that the damage is "Pirates". Most people usually do not think of a techie product or brand Ritz Saltine cooked when the term "cracker" is used.
Also technically a hacker refers to someone, cracks or protection of copyright on the software breaks, so that piracy at FTP sites are shared, such as Warez metro network. True cookies probably steal a lot of offense to do its trade name hackers.
Perhaps, instead of their feathers ruffled or write letters to the editor demanding that journalists who could abuse instead of the term pirate only is it an honor and a tribute to his art that the term "hacker" was part of the standard vocabulary. Just a suggestion.
Even those who participated in the debate should not always agree on the definition of "good" hackers or crackers or phreaking. The conclusion is that if I have a cotton swab, asked a Q-tip and if I refer to any kind cybercriminals a hacker will probably call them. The term is here to stay as a rule, and if you should pirate purists probably just get used to.
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