Hacker's Culture
In this paper I have discussed about hackers, who hackers really are. It discusses when the term was originally coined and who was it originally used to refer to. As time passed, and various technological developments were made, hackers changed from information-hungry nerds to cyber-criminals. Then I discuss how the connotation associated with hackers has changed and how it does not apply to all hackers. The hackers who are harmful to the society are the members of new subcultures and are different from the original hackers. Hackers require understanding since there are hackers who have teamed up with security agency to help the society. This paper tries to cover the good and bad affects caused by hacking and how only time can tell whether it will act entirely as destructive or constructive forces or if both forces will co-exist. Ever since the invention of the computers there have been people who have been deeply involved with this new technology. From it's earliest beginnings, there have been people who want to have technological proficiency and want to display this. These people who spent hours and hours of their time playing around with computers to ge
Johnson, Deborah G., (1994). Computer Ethics, Second Edition. Hackers began to creep into big organizations and play around with the data that was now available to them. They usually did this just to see how for they could go before anybody noticed them. In the beginning, these hackers were able to penetrate deep into the systems of the companies because the data administrators were unaware of this new breed of information hungry, technologically proficient computer users. Breaking into a system was usually very easy for them. All that was needed was to guess a poorly chosen password and lo and behold, the doors were open to huge amounts of information. They then took advantage of this by rewriting system software, creating dummy accounts, and leaving behind "logic bombs" or "trojan horses", hidden programs that would execute automatically under certain conditions. Hackers: Taking a Byte Out of Computer Crime. In this paper I have tried look at hackers from both the pro and the con side. And as the arguments suggest, hackers do not only act as a destructive force. They have also contributed to its betterment. Hackers are of both kinds, those who are motivated to hack for money, power, revenge, do industrial espionage, and sabotage competitors, and there are those who are motivated to hack so that they can obtain knowledge. But as I just mentioned previously it does not really matter what the intentions are if the affects are harmful. The hacker culture desperately needs some understanding. If there are hackers who get into systems to bring them down and con companies out of money, there are others who get into a system to demonstrate the flaws in it's security so that they can be improved.
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