Hackers Good or Evil?

Hackers: Good vs. Evil
The title "Hacker" is often associated with a social outcast banging away at the keys of his homemade supercomputer, all night and into the morning. You might picture this person locking themselves in a room for days; conspiring to steal, vandalize others property, and just plan cause destruction. The media has portrayed a hacker to be exactly that, when in fact the term to really describe this kind of behavior is a cracker. A cracker is one who breaks security on a system. Coined by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse of the term "hacker". …