Sunday, September 23, 2007

Hackers- Who and Why?

I believe that hackers could be anyone. They could be my neighbor or my little brother for all I know. A hacker could be someone who hurts or helps us, we just don't really know. They could steal our entire identities or they could help us by showing us how easy they can take control of our computers, so they could help us by telling us how to protect our PCs better. I do believe that hackers our a new counter culture to our society today, because they live their lives in a whole new technological and cyber world. Hackers say they like to hack for many reasons some for bragging rights, some say that they hack for the power trip that they get, and some say they hack to find loop holes and problems in software's to let the providers (Microsoft) know. Hackers say, that they hack to find faults on software, and let the people know. Some hackers do what they do to show people how they need to be more careful on the Internet, and how they need try to use some type of firewall or anti-virus software. I believe that many hackers do nothing but hurt our communities by stealing money and people's identities. I also believe though that many hackers out there help us greatly. By looking out for the people and finding the problems with software and bringing that to the people's attention. They will help bring the Internet to a more safe place and they could help build the code of ethic's for the Internet. So that other countries or terrorists can not use the Internet against other people and nation's to greatly hurt them. Like the movie stated that hackers will have a great stabilizability of the cyberspace and that I do believe.

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