Response #1 The word "Hacker"

The Word Hacker

To my understanding the word “Hacker” is a contentious term used in computing for several types of person. Throughout the years there have been numerous crimes that have been committed, do to the hacking of computers. Also there have been numerous cases where hacking is used to solve crimes. The word “hacker” has two meanings to it, with programmers hacking is someone that can make a computer do whatever he or she wants.

The word hack has two different meanings, it can be used in a good sense as if someone does something so clever to beat the system it is called a hack. But also in a bad sense it is also called a hack when you do something in an ugly way. I think the word is used in an ugly sense more than a good sense. when I look on TV I often see people getting in trouble for fraud through the hacking of people’s bank accounts and hacking into system codes. According to an article in (whatis.com) People were first introduced to hacking when the movie “War Games” came out in 1983. The same year, six teenagers got arrested for breaking into about sixty computers some of which was government owned and operated machines (pcworld.com).

Today I have learned that hacking is pretty much frowned upon. There are so many people who make a great deal of money hacking, whether it’s in a good sense or bad. There are now skilled IT Technicians that work to keep the internet clear and clean from hackers. If a hacker is able to access a company’s database, the technicians will alert the company of the database.

A hackers are very diverse and have their own society that most people don’t know about or don’t understand. To become a hacker you should be skilled in a couple of things; most hackers are skilled in different categories with computers. Most hackers have to learn programs, be skilled with operating system and different languages. Effects that hacking is causing to the society can’t be ignored. Hacking these days are bringing more danger and causing people to lose almost everything they have. Nowadays you can find out anyone’s information through a computer causing many people to get money stole from them. But that’s only the small problem of hacking. When dealing with hacking into the government, that is just a very different type of crime. Because hackers are human beings, who have two sides; evil and good, evil individuals should be studied and given the highest priority in the war against hackers because since we put our hands on the cause, we can fix it to reach for better effects.