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A cracker (sometimes called a black hat) is a hacker who turned to the dark side. Often times crackers are immature individual who seek the excitement and notoriety of cracking a system for tagging (i.e. deface a web site) or a cracker is someone motivated by financial gain, (i.e. someone who gets into a computer network to steal credit card information).
