the.com/script kiddie
someone who downloads the cannon but has never met gunpowder.
means a low-skill hacker who uses other people's tools and exploits without understanding how they work.
from coined in 1990s hacker forums to insult amateurs riding on real programmers' code, as opposed to elite hackers who wrote their own exploits from scratch.
hierarchy insultranks below phreakers, crackers, and actual hackers
tools not skillrelies on gui panels, not written code
still dangerouscan crash real networks despite zero expertise
for instance
lizard squad — 2014 xbox live and psn ddos attacks, mostly rented botnets
low orbit ion cannon — 2010s anonymous ddos tool, one-click attacks for anyone
mafiaboy — 2000, 15-year-old took down cnn and yahoo with borrowed scripts