Computer Hacking

Computer Hacking is the practice of modifying computer hardware and software to accomplish a goal outside of the creator’s original purpose. People who engage in computer hacking activities are often called hackers. Since the word "hack" has long been used to describe someone who is incompetent at his/her profession, some hackers claim this term is offensive and fails to give appropriate recognition to their skills.
Computer hacking is most common among teenagers and young adults, although there are many older hackers as well. Many hackers are true technology buffs who enjoy learning more about how computer work and consider computer hacking an “art” form. They often enjoy programming and have expert-level skills in one particular program. For these individuals, computer hacking is a real life application of their problem-solving skills. It’s a chance to demonstrate their abilities, not an opportunity to harm others.

What is computer hacking?
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Computer hacking always involves some degree of infringement on the privacy of others or damage to computer-based property such as files, web pages or software. The impact of computer hacking varies from simply being simply invasive and annoying to illegal. There is an aura of mystery that surrounds hacking,and a prestige that accompanies being part of a relatively "elite" group of individuals who possess technological savvy and are willing to take the risks required to become a true "hacker".

Computer hacking written by David M Stone, University Laboratory High School
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The hacker is a slang term for a computer enthusiast, example, a person who enjoys learning programming languages and computer systems and can often be considered an expert on the subject. After reading these articles, hacking can be use to 2 ways, the best way is you can defend from the hacker to protect the resources, for example, a company hire a hacker to prevent the hacking cases happen. The bad way that is intrusion of personal/organization privacy, in other words, unauthorized access to the security of the computer or network, it's a crime cases and against the cyber law which protect the internet activities.
The hacker not really have the professional skills, while the cracker have the professional skills with special training. Everybody can be a hacker if they have a little intelligent.

The purpose of being a hacker, there are 2reasons that I found and analyzed are:
-Maybe they just want to challenge themselves whether they can do it or not.
-Secondly it become an attack, with purposely, without authorization of the owner, they hacking to steal things/information.

As a conclusion, Human always like to challenge themselves and tend to use it on the wrong way as human is greedy and like to destroy the environment. Being a hacker must have moral, they should practise to contribute to the society, instead of bringing harm to the people and organization. This is because it could let them go to jail because this is a serious case as they access without permission.