Come on…
Don’t people have anything else to do than mess up my pages?! Yesterday I made a new release of [PHP Shell][], and 13 minutes later some idiot (with an IP address of 12.151.162.13) replaced the entire page with the text “H A C K E D B Y A L N O R 3 S”.
First of all, you haven’t “hacked” anything — you’ve used the readily available editing facilities in PhpWiki to edit the page. Now, that’s really impressive — it shows that you can submit a form through a webbrowser! What a cool way to demonstrate the great computer skills possessed by the so-called hackers from this “alnor3s”… I guess we all have to fear these guys who have such great knowledge on how to do WikiVandalism…
Secondly, the term hacker is used about a person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. according to JargonFile:hacker. Perhaps you confused yourself with a cracker (see the Jargon File), but I wouldn’t even call you that since you haven’t cracked anything — a WikiWikiWeb is already wide open to everybody.
Even if you have no creative skill, there’s no reason to destroy the work or others, especially when this work is given away for free in the hope that someone out there might find it useful.
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