Hacking for a Better Tomorrow
What do you think of when you hear the word hacker--a leather-clad, mohawked, teenager with a malicious grin on his face just itching to destroy your computer? This is what the average person will picture in their head, but they fail to truly understand what it is that hackers do, and how it can actually be helpful to them. The reason this stereotype of hackers has not gone away is because the media shows only the bad. If a hacker has been stealing credit card numbers CNN reports it instantly, but if a hacker creates a program that helps keep a system secure, you would be hard pressed to find anything about it in a news source. (Dissident p. 1)Real hackers are not out to destroy systems, they simply want to break in for the challenge, to know that they can do it, and get away with it. "Don't ever maliciously hack a system. Do not delete or modify files unnecessarily, or intentionally slow down or crash a system." (Deicide p. 3) A statement similar to this one will be found in nearly any document you find about hacking. Movies and television create an image of hackers that is completely false in most cases. They show people breaking into a system in a matter of seconds and erasing the data to keep the bad guy or good gu
We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and judging people by what they say and think, not what they look The hacking community is huge, and the internet has helped this community immensely. Hackers in Japan can now freely communicate with hackers in the U.S. But the hacking community also has its problems such as sexism. Primarily, hackers are male. Many hackers don't give female hackers respect and actually want them gone. I feel this is a foolish notion, the internet (cyberspace) is a place where sex, or race usually is not of consequence. "We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias..." (Newbie handbook p. 12). Hopefully this issue will be resolved and hackers will once again share information and ideas without worrying if the person they are getting it from is female or not. (Fennelly p. 3)
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Approximate Word count = 1268
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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