Neo Hacking

Digital warriors

          Breaking the law for one's benefit has always been a interesting concept. But in today's physical actions such as robbing a bank or taking money from a cash register isn't necessary. The big money comes from white collar crimes, such as business scams and investment money embezzlement. Another form comes from just sitting at home and hacking networks to find any vulnerabilities. These hacker attacks are not a single person's action but have evolved to a group efforts. In article by Huffington Post it is explained how thousands of playstation network accounts were compromised by a large group of people.
           The concept of hackers and hacking has been around for much of the time the Internet has, and much like the Internet itself these terms have evolved over time. Originally hacking referred to attacks into private networks to access confidential information. But now the hacking that I and other future minded people refer to is completely different. Hacking use to be about stealing and destroying other people's work by creating virus and worm holes, but now it means creating a new entity from the materials provided.
         This is the way Hacking was meant to be, because like scientist, hackers in the early days were just motivated by curiosity. Hacking was a tool to learn what was inside a computer, how it ran and what made the network tick. From looking at the current windows machine Steve jobs was able to create his own. Like many children left alone to their own devices, I remember at young age breaking apart my clock and other small devices around the house hold and trying to putting them together. Hacking is no different, it allows a user to understand the structure of the subject they are looking at and with this knowledge are able to improve it or create a new prototype. 
      Generally the public may look at the word hacking in a negative connotation, but like anything in this world a tool can only be harmful in the wrong hands. A gun does not murder people, but instead a human does. In most cases, public defenders have guns to shoot another human, but only to protect themselves or the innocent citizens around them. A mischievous person however may use that gun to enact harm to themselves or to others. In the end hacking in its rawness quenches my thirst of knowledge.