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**Script Kiddies**: These are the wannabe hackers. They are looked down upon in
the hacker community becase they are the people that make hackers look bad.
Script kiddies usually have no hacking skills and use the tools developed by
other hackers without any knowledge of what's happening behind the scenes.

**Intermediate hackers**: These people usually know about computers, networks
and have enough programming knowledge to understand relatively what a script
might do, but like the script kiddies they use pre-developed well-known
**exploits** (_a piece of code that takes advantage of a bug or vulnerability in
a piece of software that allows you to take control of a computer system_) to
carry out attacks.

**Elite hackers**: These are the skilled hackers. They are the ones that write
the many hacker exploits out there. They can break into systems and hide their
tracks or make it look like someone else did it. You should strive to eventually
reach this level.

[Index](/blog/intro_hacking/index)
