A study of computer hacking, viruses, and network security.
This paper examines the issues of computer hacking. It defines hacking as the intentional breaching of another personal or business computer system without permission of the owner of that system either simply for the technical challenge of doing so or because the hacker wishes either to gain information from that system or to disrupt the work being done by that system. The paper describes that while some hacking is harmless in intent, a great deal of it is highly destructive. The author illustrates that hacking on the highest levels can be catastrophic to national security.
“Hacking has become a part of both our daily lives and a part of our popular culture. While in the former it is often extremely harmful, in the latter it is often depicted either as good clean fun or as part of the arsenal of those fighting the good fight.
Before we examine two fictional hacking episodes – before going on to examine both real and hypothetical cases – we should perhaps first define exactly what we mean by hacking. Here is one definition, or rather two, for “hacking” refers to a number of different activities.”