Thursday, July 01, 2004
What kind of people try to get into other people's computers?
I've never seen a better short article about the motivations of computer trespassers than this one by Sean McKibbon.
He's describing the old school, though, people who are passionate about understanding computers. An old-school "hacker", if born 40 years ago, would have been a hot-rodder.
Today there's money in computer crime. I suspect that organized crime is getting involved, especially since so many attacks seem to be based in Russia. If I'm right, a nastier breed of intruders will be attacking us over the next few years.
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He's describing the old school, though, people who are passionate about understanding computers. An old-school "hacker", if born 40 years ago, would have been a hot-rodder.
Today there's money in computer crime. I suspect that organized crime is getting involved, especially since so many attacks seem to be based in Russia. If I'm right, a nastier breed of intruders will be attacking us over the next few years.
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