Steve writes Ivanopulo letters in which he threatens him with bank-breaking lawsuits and unpleasant courtroom dramas. That is, he too was a hacker. Kevin Mitnick, who was recently sentenced to five years in prison for a number of computer break-ins, is a hacker. David Smith, the inventor of the renowned Melissa virus, which featured an image of cartoon punk Bart Simpson, is a hacker - though a luckless one. And so is Ehud Tenebaum, the clever fellow who managed to penetrate the FBI's network from his apartment in Jerusalem.
Hackers are experimenters, rebellious souls.
There is a little bit of the hacker in all of us - but not all of us hack computers. By Daniil Dougaev.