Same goes for breaking and entering. Sounds too intrusive. These more conventional misdeeds should take their cue from computer hacking. Instead of scorning hackers as repugnant techno-vandals, we've treated them as huggable, lovable outlaws. Modern-day Jesse Jameses.
Hackers play to type.
They typically are aloof young outsiders. And they disarm the public by giving cute names to their sinister pranks. We accord hackers a strange kind of respect by assessing hacker handiwork according to an unofficial gauge of technical merit and artistic flair. It's almost as if they're Olympic skaters. A sophisticated virus writer would sniff at this guy and say he's just a wannabe.