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Cracking techniques can vary from using advanced programming skills and social engineering to utilizing software developed by others without understanding how the cracking software works. The latter type of cracker is often referred to as a script kiddie. (Unskilled crackers are far more common than highly skilled ones.) Common software weaknesses exploited by crackers include buffer overflows and heap overflows.

1 Famous crackers

• Kevin Mitnick
• Robert Morris

2 Related topics

• Software cracking is similar to security cracking.
• The article on hackers has more information about security cracking.
• Phreaking is similar to security hacking, but performed on telephone systems.
• Password cracking
• Demon dialingIn the cracking scene of the 1980s, demon dialing was the act of using a modem to dial every telephone number in a local area to find out where computers are available, then attacking them, trying to gain access by guessing passwords. Demon dialing was ma
• War dialingWar dialing or wardialing was a technique in the 1980s and '90s by which a computer would repeatedly dial a number (usually to a crowded modem pool) in an attempt to gain access immediately after another user had hung up. The term (and the technique) pre-
• War driving

3 External links

• The Jargon FileThe Jargon File is a compendium of hacker jargon. The original Jargon File was a collection of hacker jargon from technical cultures including the MIT AI Lab, the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL), and others of the old ARPANET AI/ LISP/ PDP-10 communities including for a view of the history of hacker and hacking.