Many people, including software developers, believe that software should be designed openly so that it can be used and adapted by users. The result would be users who will become more and more literate and able to use computers. Instead what we have are increasing prices of an ever increasing variety of software products purporting to help business or consumers accomplish specific tasks but actually costing them hundreds if not thousands of dollars for questionable increased functionality. Hackers speak - openly The hacker community is somewhat more open than people generally believe. Surfing the Web you can easily find a lot of information about hacking, including homepages for individual hackers.
Hackers form one of type of community on the Web.
Microsoft has admitted that a partner was hit but they would not identify which one. A Lycos statement said that they already take 'extensive precautions' and declined further details. Companies need to realize that clamming up and closing the doors will not prevent this sort of thing from happening again. Really, we do. But we cannot permit them or anyone else to lay the blame on hackers.