For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life
09.02.12
Just this week, members of the loose-knit group Anonymous hacked into law enforcement websites around the world and gained access to information about government informants and other sensitive information. They call themselves "white hat" hackers to counter the criminal "black hats. Good hackers break things, too, sometimes. "The word `hacker' has an unfairly negative connotation from being portrayed in the media as people who break into computers," Zuckerberg writes. Kevin Mitnick, who was convicted and sent to prison in the 1990s for computer hacking, now works as a security consultant. It's the flip side of his past life, when he spent years stealing secrets from some of the world's largest corporations. Bad hackers destroy things with evil intentions. " Often, they're hired to expose security vulnerabilities at big corporations.
Source: PhysOrg.com