In her essay titled, “Computer Addicts”, freelance author and editor Dina Ingber explains how during the early eighties hackers would be sitting in computer centers across the country gazing at the computer monitor. These hackers ignored their personal hygiene, lost friends, and even flunked out of school because of their addiction to computers. She then explains in her essay that hackers are the wave of the future due to the computer revolution going on in the early eighties and still going on today. Ingber later claims that kids like the computers because they will always do what they tell them to do and the computer will never insult them. Seeing how

Although long-distance hacking operations have been going on for awhile, it seems that voice mail hacking is more recent. Some crackers have discovered that if a new voice mail customer does not change their default pass code for their voice mail then the code can be pretty easily cracked. When the code is cracked it simply takes just a few long-distance collect calls from a computer to run your phone bill up to an astronomical amount. Perhaps the worst thing about these crimes is that these crackers can be hard to trace if all investigators of the crime have to look into is some call that was supposedly made in the Philippines. This is just another factor that makes crackers of the 21st century so dangerous.

In conclusion to the essay, Ingber proposes that hackers might know something about the future that no one else does. She gives an example by writing about a student at MIT who had to be dragged off his computer for the fear of his health, but is now a multimillionaire in the computer industry. This just goes to show people that computers are the future and the hackers were simply the pioneers of the computer industry.

Unfortunately, today‘s hackers are not just someone who likes to play games on a computer and try to make computer programs. The hackers of this time period are much more advanced and are considered dangerous from many aspects, but in reality hackers are not the ones we need to fear. According to the “Lingo of Hackerdom” hacker

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