Support Hackers and Virus Writers

Many people might think, why would we support hacker and virus writers? Virus writers and hackers are always described as a bad person or as a cyber criminals. They are hacking system and spreading virus that cause damage for computer system. Beside the negative labels of them, we must support them because they can make a positive impact for our world.

We must identify who are hackers and who are virus writers. Hacker is someone who have much of knowledge about computer system. They hack a computer system, take over, and dominate it. Sometimes they steal an important data from a company or a website. Their motive are many. Some of them do it just for fun, take revenge to someone or institution and prove themselves that they can hack high level security system. How about virus writers? Virus writers are people who create and distribute their code for reason of nonspecific malice, employee revenge, information warfare, sabotage, and many more. They make a code that can sabotage a computer system, and replicate itself. Not all of virus writers is a computer geek like hacker because a virus can be made from a simple code.

Hacker and virus writers have knowledge and ability in computer system, and software. Logically if they can cause damage and negative impact so they have potential to make a positive impact and developing computer system. They need to be guided to be a ‘good’ hacker and virus writers. For example, a hacker can help to hack a security system. So the weakness of the security system can be found, do they can develop it and it will be more secure and powerful than before. For virus writers, they can be a good programmer so they can be a software developer. Maybe some of them are not a computer geek but they can learn more deep about computer code and we must guide them to develope or making a software, not to make malicious program and a virus.

Hacker and virus writers will always exist in this world. They can’t be eliminated. We don’t need to eliminate them. We must guide them so they can be a ‘good’ hacker and programmer. They can build and develop the software and the computer system so they will not cause damage anymore. We must support them because they need our support. Lets support hacker and virus writer for better software and computer system.

Reference:

Unmasking Virus Writers and Hackers by Sarah Gordon

Computer Security Handbook, Set. Edited by Seymour Bosworth, M. E. Kabay, Eric Whyne

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hacker.html