Week 9 - Readings/Lecture

When most people think of hackers, I can guarantee you that they are thinking of some fat guy sitting at a computer. Some guy who has nothing better to do with his time than to make some viruses just to piss people off. This is the image that hackers have gotten (mainly implemented in by the media) as times gone. Where as in reality hackers in a traditional sense is far different to this according to (Stockwell, 2008).

In fact people became hackers so they could simply better understand the computer programs and systems better.

Stockwell, S. 2008, We’re all hackers now: Doing global democracy, viewed 21^st September 2011, <http://ajax.acue.adelaide.edu.au/~allan/createworld/Stockwell_2008_Hacking.pdf>