Hackers good or evil? Argues civil liberities of true hackers

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Hackers: Good vs. Evil The title "Hacker" is often associated with a social outcast banging away at the keys of his homemade supercomputer, all night and into the morning. You might picture this person locking themselves in a room for days; conspiring to steal, vandalize others property, and just plan cause destruction. The media has portrayed a hacker to be exactly that, when in fact the term to really describe this kind of behavior is …

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