Hackers

¡°...they are still hardly criminal in nature. The intention of most of these individuals is not to destroy or exploit systems but to learn in minute detail how they are used and what they are used for. The quest is purely intellectual, but the drive to learn is so overwhelming that any obstacle blocking its course will be circumvented. Unfortunately the obstacles are usually state and federal laws on unauthorized computer access...¡± This is a quote from Chris Goggans who was once a member of the hacker Legion of Doom club. On-line he was known as ¡°Erik Bloodaxe¡±.1 The term ¡°hacker¡± was first used in the nineteen sixties to describe college students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The students were given this title because of their obsession with computers. They couldn¡¯t get enough of computers. ¡°Hacker¡± was a label of pride to these students. These first hackers did things such as probe systems to find out how they worked and how to make it give...