I agree with you professor in many respects. A hacker is not a person going around destroying people lives on the net. A hacker is a person who creates something useful for example, dos, linux, Microsoft, anti virus programs, dreamweaver mx the list is endless. Without hackers there would be no net as we know it today. Mr.Gates but his first script from a hacker for 50,000.00.Lunus who developed linux died a poor man.
I refer to a malicious hacker a person who takes down things. Highjacks computers, corrupts code, shuts down yahoo ect… this I am not. But its strange because if you know the good side the reality is you know the bad side as well. Just like the anology you cannot know truth without lies. This is inescapable fact and a logical one.
How can you know something without knowing the other? I do not deal with malicious hackers in a polite way. If they throw a hand grenade at me I throw it back.
If I make CAp members feel a little uncomfortable I am sorry. I am prepared to leave but these are the cards that were dealt to me. I would “quake in fear” if I had some malicious hacker after me or my site. Its up to The people on this private forum and of coarse the professor, want me gone and I will go. greek39
P.S who was Neil in the Matrix a hacker.