Source: "The Gift of Fire" by Sara Baase
young people believes that hacking is an exciting adventure or activity, and considered at the same time harmless. but how do we really know if it is harmless or not?
whenever any business or other type of organizations that are on the world wide web, detect hackers on their system they don't really know if it is a real hackers that wants to harm the company, or just a teenager having fun. Even though they're entering the system as a prank, it could cause damage to sensitive data on the company's data base. imagine if they entered to an important government's data base, the risk of loosing data is big, but also, affects the rest of society as governments contain personal information about every single citizen of the nation. There are other problems involving hackers with no bad intentions, such as they can make some mistakes rthat could make a create risk to the company.now that we have some basic knowledge about harmless hacking lets relate this topic to personal electronic devices. Many of this harmless hackers invent viruses and hacking tools to break into people's personal life, which basically consists on breaking into their personal electronic devices as cellphones, that have much of their day to day information. Sometimes this pranks can cause people's life, since important and crucial information to people may be lost on this silly games.
So the question is, until what extent is this silly joke of harmless hacking going to affect society?
many of this hackers are underage, so it is impossible for law to take them under arrest, but some actions should be taken into account. we believe that we should teach young hackers the possible damages that their jokes cause to companies and people's personal life. since most of them are aware that a single mistake can be a life threatening risk. so our goal is to create appropriate penalties, educate and teach their parents the responsibilities because many parents aren't aware that the children are hacking and harming others.
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So the question is, until what extent is this silly joke of harmless hacking going to affect society?
ResponderEliminarWhat possible penalties could be created to opunish those young hackers that are under aged?
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ResponderEliminarHackers, regardless of whether they are young or not, should be pretty much aware of what their little activities can have on some companies. So I don't think that there is really a line where hacking can be considered harmless. Of course, unless it's one of those hacking competitions that are held from time to time.
ResponderEliminarEven if the hacker claims that it is harmless, they can not risk and underestimate the impact that they could have on a person, family, neighborhood, local, city or even a nation. Finally I do not see why a hacker would infiltrate into personal handheld devices if he was indeed "harmless".
I think that there are not many possible penalties that could be created to punish hackers that are under aged. One could be for example to force them to pay a fee or depending on the magnitude of the problem they could be penalized by the law. Although, this will not stop young hackers, from hacking they will still do it even if they are punished.
ResponderEliminaragreeing with chong, even of he hacker claims it is harmless, it is always guilty, always harmless. But i have one question that what if the hacker was under-aged? are his/her parents responsible for what their child has done? even if they have nothing to do with the crime
ResponderEliminarI think that reguardless of the age if a hacker manages to hack a network, even if they are not familiar with it or are inexperienced, they should be penalized according to the magnitude of the effect the perticular hack had. A simple harmless hack into any network can taunt other hackers with malicious intents to hack this particular network for the wrong reasons.
ResponderEliminarIf someone hacked a system, the law would probably know where the location is because it can locate the IP address. If the 'hacker' was underaged or not, they should be aware what they are trying to do. If it was a child that knows more on IT, he or she should be punished and be away from the PC he or she is using.
ResponderEliminarSaid by Chong -- if the activity is harmless, why hacking the society? If was hacked within the society, everyone would be panicked and ask one of the IT tech guys to help them solve his or her problem. If I were to be the hacker and did this harmless activity, I would be very guilty and confess to the law that I did this. I would be very sorry that I 'destroy' people's information.
Pranks is a social problem that should be addressed and enforced at home, in school and in the streets to prevent damage to third parties.
ResponderEliminarAs we discussed in class I would agree with Mr. Robinson that it would never be expectable for user of the web to hack sites or networks even though they don’t do it for bad reasons or damage it at all. It is a form of invasion of privacy. In the U.S. people have to sign papers of confidentiality when they investigate in depth a business, these hacker are doing the same of taking a look in depth but without the authorization of the owners of the sites and network.
ResponderEliminarAs we discussed in class I would agree with Mr. Robinson that it would never be expectable for user of the web to hack sites or networks even though they don’t do it for bad reasons or damage it at all. It is a form of invasion of privacy. In the U.S. people have to sign papers of confidentiality when they investigate in depth a business, these hacker are doing the same of taking a look in depth but without the authorization of the owners of the sites and network.
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