Those were days that power was hard-earned. One of the amazing things of the computer age is the way it empowers people. You hear of massive computer break-ins at major corporations. There is a big investigation and it is traced down. It is a high school kid who was fooling around with his computer in his spare time.
Kids have a sort of power envy.
Society does not let them drink or drive. Maybe their parents tell them when they have to be in at night at a certain time. They have to go to bed at a certain time. Young people want to feel they have some power. It must feel marvelous to break into some big corporation's most private information.