Everyone knows that senior programmers are very popular, so who is better, senior programmers or hackers?

Non-employees have different perceptions of the external image of programmers and hackers, because ordinary programmers are generally talented men who are not funny at all. They wear plaid shirts all the year round and have sparse hair. Although they earn a lot of money, they don't spend money to dress themselves up. The image of a hacker is completely different. They are mysterious. Maybe anyone around us can be a hacker in the dark. Hackers also like to wear black clothes and hats, and don't like to show their true colors.

In fact, hackers and ordinary programmers just have their own emphasis, and they can't say which is higher or lower. Hackers give people a powerful feeling mainly because the destructiveness they bring is intuitive and easy for ordinary people to understand. For example, the most common thing in movies is to invade other people's systems and do bad things. And how "ordinary programmers" can build a complex and awesome application through various exquisite designs, which can resist huge traffic, beyond the understanding of ordinary people, such as Taobao, and can resist the traffic of Spring Festival Evening activities. Both are beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Generally speaking, hackers and ordinary programmers have different emphases and skill trees, such as XSS attacks on the front end. Hackers know that if the content in this input box is not processed, they can achieve the attack purpose by constructing special input content, but they generally don't care about how to make this input box look better and be more user-friendly. Maybe the next question is whether your form will be attacked by CSRF. Another example is that there are many loopholes in the framework/language, and hackers will use these loopholes to launch some attacks. Hackers are probably not familiar with this framework/language.

In contrast, ordinary programmers will not pay attention to many points that hackers pay attention to, such as CAPTCHA, and may directly introduce a third party to defend themselves, and will not realize it themselves. There are encryption algorithms that almost only hackers will study. Ordinary programmers may study compression algorithms. Hackers attack in various ways, and some can't even write code. For example, in Who am I, there is a person who doesn't have an absolutely safe system and doesn't write code at all, and collects a lot of useful information by rummaging through trash cans, unlocking and peeking at information, thus launching an attack. This is generally called "social worker attack".