Hacking 101 - Kapil Sharma

Accessing any physical and non-physical objects/systems to extract/use its attributes/features is called hacking. 

 Hacking cannot be related to computer systems access but its a generic word where any other person except the original user, have the access/use the owner object, with or without permission. 

 Now a question can raise what means with permission system access?
How can any one allowed object/system to be accessed/explored by other user. 

 This comes in the domain of ethical hacking, where expert system hacker access original author machine to expose system weakness and venerability.
So, that original owner can fix the open leak information ports, access gates. 
Location: Panchkula, Haryana, India

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