Hacking: Definition, motiver og konsekvenser

“But I was just looking..” That’s a often heard sentence from specially young boys when they had been a place on the net, where they shouldn’t be.

Robbing a bank, or hacking another person,

Both are crimes, and both are very serious.

What is hacking?

Hackers are person’s who unwarranted get access to other peoples computer, it can etc. be to log on confidential data which aren’t your own business, or maybe even transfer some money from another person’s account? Maybe your friends think it’s cool to hack, but the price can be high. Hacking aren’t a game, you can’t finish when you don’t want to play it anymore, if you have been on another person’s computer, and you get busted, you risk paying a fine, or even worse.

The point of hacking

The hackers split up in different categories, depends on the point of hacking.

Some of them mean, that they get the internet working better, because they help finding new ways destroying things like child porn. That’s the “good hackers.”

For others is the point apparent to show that they are the lord of the internet.

A third group aim just for destroy computer systems and programs, this group a also called “crackers.”