Of course, hackers know who to put on any certification board to discover weaknesses in software products. The comparison to the motor vehicle industry does bring out the fact that there is no effective competition for the Windows operating system. Security of the Windows operating system is another issue that hackers want to draw attention to. At the Def Con Convention in July 2000, hackers focused on the lack of public awareness of real security issues, blaming the media for missing the point. The first point that the media always misses, according to hackers, is that hackers don't get caught.
Hackers can enter a computer without leaving a trace.
Not only can a hacker open and view all the information on the computer, but he or she can operate that computer just as if the hacker were sitting at the keyboard. This has serious implications for law firms with links to clients'computers. The law firm computer could be a gateway to a client's system. Since the media attention to the hackers'convention had no impact, hackers undertook to embarrass Microsoft by hacking into Microsoft's head office computers. To maximize the embarrassment, hackers told Microsoft of a security vulnerability.