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Hacker
* Many hackers have legitimate jobs as computer programmers, developers or network administrators.
* Most hackers are children who grew up in the Internet
  - intelligent, resourceful individuals
  - are, in fact, law-abiding individuals who are proud of their proficiency in computers
* Some hackers are apolitical, stereotypical computer nerds
  - peddle their wares by planting viruses
  - use their skills to make money legally
  - work under the cover of anonymity
* adapt and change with their environments as a means of identity.
* also break into computers to steal stored data
  - engage in information theft for the purposes of corporate and political espionage
  - have a social network
* always wear glasses and type like hellbent maniacs.
* are a VERY large and influential community planet wide in the computer world
  - benevolent people who play with technology
  - almost never business people, themselves
  - an asset to the government and to corporations
  - basically technically sophisticated computer using thieves
* are computer experts who understand how internet transmissions are encoded
  - users
  - diverse, from all cultures and backgrounds
  - everywhere, from every walk of life, every type of lifestyle
  - evil people
  - experimenters, rebellious souls
  - individuals who seek to gain unauthorized access to computer networks or a Web site
  - intelligent agents
  - notorious for signing their work and offering a valid, but anonymous, mailbox
  - only computer mania or specialists
  - people against censorship
* are people who enjoy playing with computers
  - know about and enjoy computer programming and solving problems
  - seem to have nothing better to do than try to break into systems
  - protectors rather than criminals
  - terrorists
* are the elite corps of computer designers and programmers
  - online detectives of the virtual world
  - scourge of the Internet
  - tinkerers
* are usually legitimately employed computer experts and closet geeks
  - very talented, smart people who understand computers better than others
* are, by definition, programmers.
* attack when they're mad about something.
* attempt to penetrate computer networks through Internet connections.
* believe that to hoard information for profit is to hurt society, to slow progress.
* can and do find ways to read E-mail
  - break into a chain of computers
  - enter private networks through some Internet services and steal or tamper with data
  - sometimes trash web pages by getting in and making their own adjustments to the files
  - steal millions electronically
  - use stolen passwords to harass or threaten someone using someone else's name
* cause victims to spend time and money checking and resecuring systems after break-in.
* come from all different backgrounds and have all kinds of lifestyles
  - races, both sexes and can be of any age
  - in many varieties
* destroy property and records.
* focus on passwords that are sent over the network.
* form one of type of community on the Web.
* have a history of breaking into well guarded computers
  - help breaking into government networks
  - programs that flip words back and forth
  - relatively little ability to identify emotionally with other people
  - the ability to push computer science and computer technology to the extreme
* leave electronic fingerprints like bank robbers leave real fingerprints.
* like to attack unattended systems because their chances of being discovered are low.
* love to prowl the Internet looking for unsuspecting victims.
* often amass a library to improve their education.
* often break into computer systems or networks for the thrill or notoriety
  - networks simply to prove that they can
  - commandeer other people's computers or ISPs to mask what they're up to
  - disagree with authority, including parents, employers, social customs and laws
  - enter networks through old computers that are no longer in use
* often exploit weaknesses in software to penetrate websites and corporate computers
  - publicize their actions within their community
  - think that privacy is the most important issue
  - try to erase the evidence of their activities
* often use high-speed corporate computers as a means to send huge quantities of spam quickly
  - on-line dictionaries
* pose the biggest threat to an interplanetary Internet.
* solve problems and build things, and they believe in freedom and voluntary mutual help.
* sometimes seek to garner publicity by timing attacks near symbolically important events
  - watch email servers and can intercept emails
* spend their time fixing problems in hardware as well as software.
* steal information, they alter Web sites
  - telephone and computer time and share unauthorized access codes and passwords
* target universities because universities are known for having very lax security.
* tend to be older, gainfully employed and educated
  - prefer the terms hacker and wizard
  - use brute force
  - work alone but sometimes they team up to form a group
* term no one uses anymore.
* thrive on outsmarting computer security systems.
* try to attack machines and networks for a variety of reasons
  - control or steal and viruses try to corrupt or delete data
* use information to gain status within their group, and power over their environment
  - the term to describe obtaining total control over a system
* usually send viruses through other people's address books.
* work on the reputation economy.
+ Keyboard (computer): Computer hardware :: Writing tools :: Data input
  * Keystroke logging is capturing a record of each key that is pressed. Keystroke logging can be used to measure employee activity. Hackers can also use keystroke logging. Scientists discovered that most keyboards give off electromagnetic radiation that can be used to tell which keys have been pressed.