Computer Hackers What is a computer hacker? A hacker is a computer aficionado, a modern day Robin Hood, or an educated thug who breaks in to corporate and government computer systems using their home computer and a telephone modem. Despite this flurry of attention, their everyday life and social world remains largely unknown. They have needs, motives and individual characteristics that made them the criminals of the information age. Our current knowledge derive form hackers …showed first 75 words of 635 total…

…showed last 75 words of 635 total…prohobiting him from the use of a computer and did countless hours of community service. Although these hackers did not pose as harm to soceity nor did they hack with malicious intent to damage or destroy other people's property. They are hackers who never sought monetary gain from their hacking, though it could have been extremely profitable since they stole propreitary copyrighted software. They pursued their hacking as a means of satisfying their intellectual curiosity