First lets talk about what hacker is. The stock definition is that “ones who uses programming skills to gain illegal access to a computer network or file”. Hackers originally came to be known an individual who enjoys learning about computer systems and how to stretch their capabilities. Hacking can go back as far as 1878. The first report is of ten boys that kicked the phone system off just as a prank. Hacking has not been a real problem until the early 1980’s when IBM released the first personal computer. Within th

e next two years almost all microcomputer operating systems, except MS-DOS and Apple, would be dead. As prices plunged all the self-respecting hackers would own their own computers. Hackers then stopped sneaking around computer labs at night. In 1984 the US Congress passes the Comprehensive Crime Control Act giving the US Secret Service jurisdiction over computer fraud. At this time the vast majority of computers could only be accessed by discovering individual phone lines. Thus one of the most treasured prizes for a hacker would a phone number to some mysterious computer. In 1988 Robert Morris, son of NSA chief scientist Robert Morris Sr., writes an exploit that will forever be know as the Morris Worm. It used a combination of finger and sendmail commands to break into computers, coping itself and then send copy after copy on to other computers.

You can never predict the future but as an outsider who is not either a hacker, anti-hacker there are certain changes that could greatly benefit the current circumstances on the

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