>>6
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Hacking, is in fact, Cracking, or as I've recently
taken to calling it, Skiddie Stuff. Hacking is not breaking security, but rather programming free components such as the
GNU system, sometimes analogue to programming and developing, as defined by the Jargon File.
Many computer users misuse the term hacking every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the act
of breaking computer security is today often called hacking, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically cracking, a
destructive and illegal act.
There really is hacking, and these people are doing it, but it is just the process of programming free software. Hacking
is constructive: the hackers write software. The term hacking is normally used when referring to development of free
software or exceptionally good programmers, the whole act is basically programming with more skill, or hacking. All the
so-called hackers in the mass media are really crackers.