Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.
Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.
The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.
Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.
While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.
See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.
Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.
I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.
The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.
A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.
There are more hackers breeding every day, and more brilliant minds are turning into hackers. Security has advanced, but so have hackers.
A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.
The intent of the individuals who created the DDoS attacks has nothing to do with hacking, and they are vandals, not hackers.
Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.
As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.
Without those hackers, we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.
Hackers are nerdy, pasty, tubby, little geeks with triple thick glasses and this is probably a demented otaku with smelly feet. So catching him will be a breeze!
It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature
Never send a boy to do a woman's job.
If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.
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