Both governments and companies are forced to pay large amounts of money to try and make their sites safe and impossible for hackers to break into. However most hackers are not going to harm a government or business. Genuine hackers hack only for the joy of knowledge. A rush, like no other, is felt after finally gaining access into a site or a computer. They feel most information should be free. They do not look at hacking as stealing. They see hacking as borrowing information. However the good hackers do understand the rights of privacy and the good hackers do not mess with peoples private matters. Hackers believe knowledge is power. Therefor they are in the constant pursuit of power. Hackers are a growing trend, or problem, which ever way one sees it. This underground culture will not disappear anytime soon. In fect its constantly growing as the number of users on the internet keesp on increasing, this is*a href=http://www.coainc.cjb.net/*(http://www.coainc.cjb.net/)*/a href* just one site where a person is offerd introductions into hacking and to join a hacker group. In short I will brifly describe the basic methods and , present alilte of the FYI on hacking it self. Hackers may use a variety of ways to hack into a system.First if the hacker is experienced and smart the hacker will use telnet to access a shell on another machine so that the risk of getting caught is lower than doing it using their ownsystem.(This is very complicated to explain, the simplest way to put is the hacker sends a commend through the internet to the server and teh server on which the telnet is located on executes the command actions), the ways in which the hacker will break into the system are: 1) Guess/cracking passwords. This is where the hacker takes guesses at the password or has a crackprogram to crack the password protecting the system. 2) Finding back doors is anotherway in which the hacker may get access to the system.