Another reason is...
you're a hacker if you use it, duh.
We don't need posts like that in this whitehat community. 
There's nothing wrong with being a hacker, especially if you're a whitehat.
Unless we're using the publicly misconceived definition of "hacker", but I'm sure we're all too smart for that.
I was being sarcastic about the 'you're a hacker if you use it'. anyways, I sure hope we aren't using the publicly misconceived definition of a hacker. A hacker is someone who breaks into computers. There are no hacker ethics.
No, a hacker isn't somebody who breaks into computers. That's the misconceived definition. You're talking about a cracker :-P
Shoulda known you woulda replied with that. But you're wrong...
hackers have broken into systems. Always have and always will. your idea of hackers have been formed by the sec industry. a hacker is someone who hacks into computers. do not tell me that when you first decided you'd become a hacker that you wanted to be a whitehat, iago. don't tell me you never wanted to break into a server. that is what a hacker was original, and that is what it always will be. a cracker is someone who 'breaks into software'. there's a line that separates hackers from crackers. I know you'll say that breaking into software is breaking into a system, yes... but that is what hackers do. let me explain. crackers are the people that will go and download the trial version of some shareware product, and crack the software in order to get rid of the time limit, for instance. a hacker will find ways to exploit software in order to gain certain privileges, like root. hackers gain access to systems with
THEIR OWN CODE (0day code), crackers gain a lifetime of warez because they can pirate stuff on their own
.
