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Hackee vs Hacker - What's the difference?

hackee | hacker |

As nouns the difference between hackee and hacker

is that hackee is (us|dialect) the chickaree or red squirrel or hackee can be the victim of a hacking attack; one whose computer system is broken into while hacker is hacker.

hackee

English

Etymology 1

From its chittering cry when alarmed.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US, dialect) The chickaree or red squirrel.
  • * 1865 , John George Wood, The illustrated natural history: Volume 1 (page 600)
    • The Hackee is one of the liveliest and briskest of quadrupeds, and by reason of its quick and rapid movements, has not inaptly been compared to the wren.
  • * 1894 , Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas: Volume 21, Part 1
    • The hackee , which is pedimanous, tried to climb the bole.
  • (US, dialect) The chipmunk.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The victim of a hacking attack; one whose computer system is broken into.
  • * 1998 , Annette N. Markham, Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space (page 185)
    • On the other hand, the absence of identifying marks such as online or offline names and information is crucial when hacking, because the goal is to be unnoticed, not real, nonexistent from the point of view of the other (i.e., the hackee ).
  • * 2003 , Michael Chris Knapp, E-commerce: Real Issues and Cases (page 220)
    • Fortunately for the "hackee " company, its computer security professionals found "electronic fingerprints" left by the other firm's personnel during the hacker attack, which led, in turn, to the discovery of the stolen e-mail.
  • * 2011 , Frederick Ramsay, The Eye of the Virgin (page 139)
    • She had a hacker. The tables had been turned and she was the hackee .

    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 ----