Hacker's Culture

Hackers' Culture Abstract: In this paper I have discussed about hackers, who hackers really are. It discusses when the term was originally coined and who was it originally used to refer to. As time passed, and various technological developments were made, hackers changed from information-hungry nerds to cyber-criminals. Then I discuss how the connotation associated with hackers has changed and how it does not apply to all hackers. The hackers who are harmful to the …

…is whether the corporate industry can accept to the knowledge and expertise of hackers; if a higher level of technology can be realized if these two factions were to work together. Bibliography: Blake, Roger. Hackers in The Mist. Hackers: Taking a Byte Out of Computer Crime. Johnson, Deborah G., (1994). Computer Ethics, Second Edition. Prentice Hall, New Jersey. Rosteck, Tanya S. (1995) Computer Hackers: Rebels With a Cause. Sterling, Bruce. Law and Disorder of the Electronic Frontier.