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A person who used his or her expertise to gain access to other people's
computers to get information illegally or do damage is a

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spammer
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hacker
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instant messenger
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programmer
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analyst
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The correct option is B hacker

A person who used his or her expertise to gain access to other people's computers to get information illegally or do damage is a hacker.

While this term originally referred to a clever or expert programmer, it is now more commonly used to refer to someone who can gain unauthorized access to other computers. A hacker can "hack" his or her way through the security levels of a computer system or network.

Hacking.In computer science, hack verb means gain unauthorized access to computer data: to use a computer or other technological device or system in order to gain unauthorized access to data held by another person or organization; a transitive verb meaning cope with something: to succeed at or endure something.


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