Thursday, October 13, 2011
Hackers in Society
Recently I've been thinking a lot about the effect that hackers have on society and the position that they play. Having recently finished the Cukoo's Egg, the topic has been on my mind. There are basically two type of hackers (although the line can be really fuzzy), people who want to see how stuff works and poke at vulnerabilities and those that wish to wreak havoc and steal. Because of the latter group the former becomes necessary. People who find weakness in systems without breaking things in necessary in a world where people want to wreck havoc. Fortunately basically ever computer nerd in the world likes doing that sort of things and most of them are pretty nice guys.
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Its sad that we have to have computer security at all. If the whole world were made of honest men then we could expose everyone's social security number and credit card information without problem.
ReplyDeleteI suppose it is a very fine line. A while back I saw on TV that the government directs training programs teaching people to hack so that they can be more knowledgeable when defending against hackers. Pretty Cool!
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