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Hackers cost governments, corporations, and even everyday people billions of dollars per year. You might ask, sure, there are those out there for profit, but what about the college student who was just doing it for fun? Whether it's for profit or fun, it's still theft. While, in some cases it is for money, in others, it's for information. Just because a person uses a computer should not impact the severity of their punishment. A murderer's punishment is not affected by which weapon he chooses to employ, so why should a thief's punishment be affected? Usually, information is stolen for the express purpose of making money, either directly, or through the sale of the information obtained, or by blackmail.At any given time, millions of people's credit card numbers, social security numbers, and other private data are flying through phone lines near your house. The downside to this technological marvel that we all use, whether we know
Perhaps the most dangerous form of hacking is to break into a system to acquire information. The most common use of this practice would be industrial espionage, one company hiring hackers to obtain advance information on a competitor's product, but worst of all, foreign governments breaking into other governments systems to obtain military strengths, statistics, and troop deployments for a surprise attack. For this reason, the U.S. computer network utilizes the most costly, complex security available. Even this is not enough, though. A few years ago, a hacker organization broke the CIA and FBI web sites simultaneously and replaced the normal web pages with pornographic materials. The intrusion was detected immediately and within thirty minutes, the site had been restored to normal. To this day, the identity of the group has not been discovered.
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Approximate Word count = 634
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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