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
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