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Re: all my freinds


Lise Quinn
 

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I think you glorify it too much. A hacker's goal is most often to get around a security or licensing issue. You can romanticize a thief all you want but they will still serve real time for their crimes. And they don't look so cool?behind bars. Our own government is considering equating web-defacing and Denial of service attacks to acts of terrorism.
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Just because one did no harm after compromising a system doesn't mean that it is not wrong or 'bad' to do so, I think the argument that such people give opportunities to create better security is very weak, and if it were to float at all then it would be true in all cases. Just because you don't have a steel door and an enhanced security system for your house doesn't mean that it's alright for anyone to come into your front door and have a party in your house. To use the security argument, they were just showing you that you should have better locks on your doors.
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Electronics_101] all my freinds

Himanshu,
what i say is that hackers are not bad and niether they are evil..

No one is bad/evil, but some peole do bad things, including hackers.
A hacker is not someone who does bad things, nor is hacking bad,
but some hackers break into or snoop computers and I consider
that a bad thing. How bad depends on the act.

My main point has been to differentiate from the bad things that
some hackers do and hackers in general. It's probably the term,
it just sounds bad, as in using a machetti and hacking through
the jungle, only the implication is that they hack into compters.
But the real meaning has to do with persistance, a hacker just
keeps on with his hobby, never tiring.

Jim



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