Well, it seems as though all the government can do is get hot, bothered and hypocritical and sentence these smart kids. They should hire these kids to hack the Chi-coms, NorKors, Rooskies and Mullah-heads. BUT NO they would rather use that $$$$$$$ to keep US pop in submission. I though islam was the religion of submission—it seems as though a new “god” has emananted among us—OBALLAH- to whose regime we have to submit.
“Hacking” used to mean sitting in a dorm room for hours overnight debugging and programming code to make it work.
Nowadays hacking means breaking and entering into computer systems to steal information.
I was a “hacker” in college insomuch as I was often up until 5 AM debugging a piece of crap FORTRAN or assembly subroutine that would not output what was expected.
Contemporary hackers are your modern day Robin-Hoods. They steal information for use against the corrupt, for the most part. The government will never attract the talented hackers of the world, because those kids often know that working for the government means blacklisting by widespread communities of undercover or covert hackers across the globe. It’s a world from which I’m glad to have escaped, but today’s world of hackers are far more sophisticated than any of the crap we used to pull.
Productive “pranksters” are not the problem. Destructive ones are. I still suspect that the anti-virus companies are paying people to create new problems for them to “prevent” or “fix”. I’d like to be proven wrong.
And if it hadn't been for Papa Kennedy's corrupt sources of income, the Kennedy Klan wouldn't have held sway in Massachusetts (or national) politics.