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Where do Hackers come from?

Where do Hackers come from?

So the Chinese are giving us SARS and hacking our computers too?

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Where do hackers come from? That has been something I have been trying to find out for a long time, possibly this is why MrSmith says...

Agent Smith: It seems that you've been living two lives. One life, you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number, pay your taxes, and you... help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias "Neo" and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not.

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Hackers make me so angry... I can't imagine why it is such a growing thing... and why we have to have so much security on our computers. And those who create viruses and worms and other malicious code just make me want to scream!!

Roz

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Hackers are not synonymous with virii and worms.

Using the term hackers in such a way is generalizing. Not all hackers are malicious in nature. Some simply feel that information should be shared amongst the community. Secrets hurt. Knowledge is power. Why should the only people in power be those with money?

It is a matter of asking questions. WHY are things the way they are? HOW can we affectively create change in our society? Some people want to know the truth, not just what the government deems necessary to tell its people.

For those people that are malicious by nature, I completely agree with you - wether they are online or not.

As for those that create malicious script.. virii, trojans, worms... How do we know it isn't the ant-virus companies creating more business for themselves? I have thought something along these lines for years.

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IN MY OPINION!, the hackers that we deal with today and hear about in the news appear for one reason, Publicity. So to answer your question NEO hackers come from a human desire to get attention and to be recognized.

This statement is very nieve. I believe most people that spend any time on a computer are aware that not all hackers are dangerous. However there is no way this can be argued. The media is directly responsible for what you are considering a generalization. When is the last time that you heard a news story about this nice hacker who hacked into a bank or state office, found many flaws, and left a text document on the IT managers desktop just to let him know what he needed to fix? That just doesn't happen. The "Good" or "Ethical" hackers that you are attempting to defend have all taken high paying jobs as security advisors or consultants.

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If we really want to be specific... a hacker just modifies whereas a cracker infiltrates. If you modify any code to do something different you are a hacker. If you defy what a script is trying to stop you from doing then you are a cracker. Therefore, crackers come from the need to modify existing code for whatever reason: good or bad. I feel the majority of hackers today seem to be web site owners who have interactive scripts.

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Online brawls may be fractious hackers' downfall

The rogue hackers behind brazen cyber attacks are clever online technicians but have a critical human frailty - petulant personalities prone to infighting that may spell disaster for their raids on spies, banks and companies. Ref. Source 6