His fingers lie lightly over the keyboard. With the punch of a certain key, a string of characters scrolls onto the screen. I have done it he says, I am in. Meaningless to the untamed eye, numbers and letters in many different rows and patterns race horizontally across the screen. But for the hacker, the combination of data contains classified, secret information. Information from whether or not another user is searching the Internet, to a certain user’s password. With this, and a bright mind, the hacker could cause many systems to come to a crashing end. What is a hacker? Originally explained by Palmer in IBM Systems Journal, a hacker was defined as, “A person who enjoys learning the details of computer systems and how to stre
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