Cracker
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Cracker (Subculture)
There is often a dispute within the cyber-subculture, as to how Crackers and Hackers are termed. Although it's known that if a person is apart of the subculture they will try to make sure they don't sound as bad as others make out.
In one term, a Cracker is a person that deals with "codes" but this can mean running password cracking programs to actually generating the mathematics to solve crypto-cyphers.
Crackers are known to work out how programs encode passwords or Disable Trialware timeouts. (e.g. Cracks)