discuss How do you feel about "hackers"?

[Shawn]

Whether black hat or so-called ethical, cyber intrusion or "hacking" is an intriguing topic.

What do you think about the practice? How do you feel about hacktivism groups such as anonymous? Do you practice intrusion activities or know how to?

 

[Shortie]

Hacking that is done to cause distress to someone specifically is the kind of hacking I am against. I have known family members in the past to be hacked, and the panic it caused was upsetting to see.

There is hacking done by as mentioned, groups such as Anonymous, and they tend to hack to send out messages in protest, much of the time, which I feel doesn't do any harm but instead, helps to get messages out that need to be.

 

[hebafouad941]

double- edge weapons, it depends on the purpose of hacking

 

[Niyi Brixx]

I don't like hackers especially the ones that just go attacking innocent people to take over their social media accounts. They are criminals because they tend to exploit people using the account of that person. I am all out for ethical hacking though and I support it.

 

[Harsh World]

This is a pretty loaded question with so many variables that it would be hard to give a definitive answer on whether I can even support it or not.

In one context, you have the white-hat hackers who either work for a corporation and spend all day trying to exploit systems to gain access to things they shouldn't to protect that organization or lone wolves and organizations that attack (unsure if that's "hacking" or whether that's more "exploiting") specific pieces of software like Chrome, for instance, to get the message to Google to push out a security release.

Then you have the least favored hackers that get in to do destruction or have something to gain from it, like selling personal data on the black-market, if there is a market for that.

You can make the argument for hacktivist groups as good, and in the group of the aforementioned white-hat hackers, but in the end, who gets to define good?

 

[Barkeley212686]

Eu pensoI think hackers are not as bad as many people think, they can be good when they help people recover their data that was stolen by other hackers.

 

[Ja sa bong]

White hat hackers have my support all the time because they are there to do good always. I can't say that for the malicious hackers, they all deserve to have their fingers cut off and eyes poked out!! This is how I feel about them!

 

[Niyi Brixx]

White hat hackers have my support all the time because they are there to do good always. I can't say that for the malicious hackers, they all deserve to have their fingers cut off and eyes poked out!! This is how I feel about them!

If a hacker is hacking to help the government investigate, that person is making a positive social impact. The real criminal hackers always want to break into the systems of organizations just for their personal gain. They want to access data they want to use to exploit and extort people.

 

[lens]

Hackers are not generally bad and they can serve both positive and negative purposes. The whitehart hackers help to identify any loopholes in companies and help them improve their security patches once they spot any challenges in the security system but the blackart hackers are all out to steal and nothing more.

 

[Ja sa bong]

If a hacker is hacking to help the government investigate, that person is making a positive social impact. The real criminal hackers always want to break into the systems of organizations just for their personal gain. They want to access data they want to use to exploit and extort people.

Simply put, anyone who's into hacking for their own personal selfish interest is a criminal. He or she deserve to be jailed without hard labor.