The skill set is the same. Hacking is a very important skill set in our society, because these are the experts in how the systems work and how the systems fail. The people who use that expertise for bad are bad people. People who use that expertise for good are good people. One of the reasons that I support hackers is that they have been telling us for over 10 years that the emperor is naked.
Hackers are more like astronauts pushing the edge of the envelope.
Hackers have been identifying major vulnerabilities in Microsoft products and Sun products and Dell products and all kinds of computer and communications products. And nobody has wanted to listen. . . . Your view of hackers will come as a surprise, I think, to a lot of viewers, who view them as greasy-haired, goth louts who are spending too much time in front of a computer screen. I would say to you that it is the media's fault that hackers are seen in this light. The bottom line is that hackers are the pioneers in this electronic frontier.