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Pirate vs Hacker - What's the difference?

pirate | hacker |

As nouns the difference between pirate and hacker

is that pirate is a criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns while hacker is something that hacks; a tool or device for hacking.

As a verb pirate

is to appropriate by piracy, plunder at sea.

As an adjective pirate

is illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a well-known trademarked product or work subject to copyright protection and the counterfeit itself.

pirate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
    • You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates .
  • An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
  • One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission
  • * 2001 , unidentified insider, quoted in John Alderman, Sonic Boom: Napster, MP3, and the New Pioneers of Music , Da Capo Press, ISBN 978-0-7382-0777-3, page 178:
    • And Gnutella, Freenet and other pirate tools will offer plunderings beyond Fanning's fantasies.
  • * 2004 , David Lubar, Dunk , page 20:
    • They had watches that said Gucci or Rolex on them even though it was obvious they'd come straight here from some pirate factory in China.
  • * 2008 , Martha Vicinus, Caroline Eisner, Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age , page 21:
    • If we untangle the claim that technology has turned Johnny Teenager into a pirate , what turns out to be fueling it is the idea that if'' Johnny Teenager were to share his unauthorized copy with two million of his closest friends the ''effect on a record company would be pretty similar to the effect of some CD factory's creating two million CDs and selling them cheap.

    Synonyms

    * (one who plunders at sea) buccaneer, corsair, picaroon, privateer, sea rover * (one who breaks intellectual property laws by copying) bootlegger

    Related terms

    * piracy * pirated * pirate ship * piratic * piratical

    Verb

    (pirat)
  • (nautical) To appropriate by piracy, plunder at sea.
    • They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.
  • (intellectual property) To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of
  • (intellectual property) To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of
    • Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.
  • * 2002 , John Sayle Watterson, College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy , page 343
    • In the 1970s cable companies began to pirate some of the football games that the networks had contracted to televise.
  • * 2004 , Wally Wang, Steal this File Sharing Book: What They Won't Tell You about File Sharing
    • College students, with their limited budgets, often pirate software to save their money for buying more important items (like beer).
  • * 2007 , Diane Kresh, Council on Library and Information Resources, The Whole Digital Library Handbook , page 85
    • Many college students now expect to sample, if not outright pirate , movies, music, software, and TV programs.
  • To engage in piracy.
    • He pirated in the Atlantic for years before becoming a privateer for the Queen.

    Synonyms

    * (appropriate by piracy) * (make illegal copy) plagiarize, counterfeit * (engage in piracy)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a well-known trademarked product or work subject to copyright protection and the counterfeit itself.

    • Synonyms

    * pirated

    See also

    * Jolly Roger * skull and crossbones ----

    hacker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that hacks; a tool or device for hacking.
  • * 1825? , "Hannah Limbrick, Executed for Murder", in The Newgate Calendar: comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters , page 231:
    • Thomas Limbrick, who was only nine years of age, said he lived with his mother when Deborah was beat: that his mother throwed her down all along with her hands; and then against a wall, and kicked her in the belly: that afterwards she picked her up, and beat her with the hacker on the side of the head; wiped the blood off with a dish-clout, and took her up to bed after she was dead.
  • * July 1846 , John Macleod, "The Tar and Turpentine Business of North Carolina", on page 15 of the Monthly Journal of Agriculture , volume II, number 1:
    • When the dipping is thus over, the next work is to "chip" or scarify the tree immediately over the box [...]. This is done by an instrument usually called a "hacker ," sometimes "shave." Its form is somewhat like a "round shave," narrowing at the cutting place to the diameter of an inch, with a shank, to be fixed securely into a strong, heavy handle of about two feet in length, while the faces of the trees are low, but the handle is made longer as years advance the faces higher.
  • * 1877 , Reports and Awards'' of the United States Centennial Commission (regarding the) International Exhibition, 1876 (Francis A. Walker, editor), ''Reports on Awards, Group XXI , page 13:
    • 23. George C. howard, Philadelphia, U.S.
    GRINDSTONE HACKER.
    Report''.--Commended for the contrivance of an instrument, called a "hacker'''," that is used in trimming grindstones. This ' hacker turns with the stone, and is drawn across in a slide rest, and fulfills its important function satisfactorily.
  • Someone who hacks.
  • * 1902 , Our Wonderful Progress , Trumbull White (editor), page 623–624:
    • In January or February the "hacker'," with his keen-bladed ax, begins the round which ends the season. [...] About a quart of sap is taken from each box by means of the trowel-shaped scoop used by the dipper, and then the ' hacker comes along and starts the flow afresh by wounding the tree again.
  • # Particularly, one who cuts with rough or heavy blows.
  • # Particularly, one who kicks wildly or roughly.
  • # Particularly, one who is consistent and focuses on accomplishing a task or several tasks.
  • (computing) One who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer.
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  • (computing) one who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data, or to carry out malicious attacks.
  • * 2007 , Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, ?Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace
    • Typically, one hacker will annoy another; the offended party replies by launching a denial-of-service attack against the offender.
  • (computing) a computer security professional
  • (US) one who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity, especially a sport such as golf or tennis.
  • (US) one who operates a taxicab
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    • Synonyms

    * cracker

    Usage notes

    * There are significantly more meanings of the word within the United States hacker - Merriam Webster Online (American English) than in other English speaking nations. * The use of the word (term) to indicate a person who displays skill, particularly with computers, may be misunderstood hack; hacker - Concise Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press (British English) as implying the narrow meaning of unauthorised intrusion into electronic systems (also known as a (cracker) or occasionally (black hat)). This serious misunderstanding in the field of computer expertise is perhaps particularly common outside the United States. * Some computer enthusiasts object to the use of (term) for a person who breaks into computer systems, preferring (cracker) for this sense.

    References

    See also

    * * Hacker's dictionary definition of hacker US only * RFC1392 - Internet Users' Glossary, Jan 1993 ----