Differentiate between a cracker and a hacker.

Q5. Differentiate between a cracker and a hacker.

Ans. Hackers are people who break into a computer with no malicious intention. on other hand, crackers are people who gain unauthorized access to a computer with the intention of stealing information or causing harm to the computer by destroying its software.

In short, crackers are malicious programmers but hackers are ethical programmers.