Question

is hacking a right thing???

Answer 1

http://www.howtogeek.com/157460/hacker-hat-colors-explained-black-hats-white-hats-and-gray-hats/

Answer 2

it depend on the purpose of doing hacking.....

Answer 3

hacking is a skill set.
I would say yes, and that everyone involved in the production of this website have hacked a time or two :)

Answer 4

one of the best uses for hacking is testing the integrity of a system in order to make compromising it more difficult

Answer 5

The origin of the term hacking comes from two sources:

A hack writer is a person that wrote a story without any facts. In computers, the original programmers had to work from hash tables that covered what the binary input would do to the processor. A hacker translated here as someone that could write without those hash tables, so writing without the facts. Oddly, in news publishing a hack was a bad thing but in programming a good one.

In HAM radio, which many of the original computer engineers were fond of, a hacker was someone that took apart commercial hardware and modified it for HAM use. Again, this translated to computers as someone that took apart commercial hardware or software for personal use.

In these, the original meanings, there was no ill intent at all. They slowly merged and drifted into meaning someone truly skilled in computers that did a mix of work with both custom hardware and software, not just their own, but also the modification of commercial stuff.

Then there was this news article about some people, teenaged boys, that broke the security of a bank. They were some of the first security crackers to get reported on in something big enough to go national. However, when researching the story, well, the legend is that they did not want to call three white boys a group of criminal crackers, which is what the BBS world of the time would have called them. On 733t boards of the day, that was the name for code breakers. So, the reporter decided to use this other term they had been hearing a lot, hacker. That was the start of giving a bad name to hackers.

Over time, the who white/black hat thing came out, there have been companies founded by people proudly claiming themselves as hackers, and so on. The word has slowly returned to closer to what it it originally meant, but there is still a murkiness to it in some corners.

So the "rightness" of it depends on which meaning you adopt. As someone that modifies commercial things they have bought, it is just fine. As someone that uses their deep understanding of computers to do damage, well, that is a bad thing. As you can see, the difference is the individual.

Answer 6

okay are hackers aarested by police

Answer 7

Yes of corse

Answer 8

if someone hacks a account he is arrested

Answer 9

They can be. There are a number of laws about computer security. Take the CFAA or Computer Fraud and Abuse Act as an example. That one is US federal, but there are others in different states and countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act

Then there was Kevin Mitnick:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
The start of all arrests for this.

Answer 10

yes and no because if your working for the government yes if not no

Answer 11

okay even hacking a fb account is crime

Answer 12

@sumanta Yes.

@KamaraWilliams What would government have to do with it?

Answer 13

some companies pay hackers to try to hack into their stuff to find security problems

Answer 14

like some governments might need to find a criminal and they might not have a lead on it, so they might need to hack into the bank account to find recent purchases, etc and see where they are at....

Answer 15

A government can use a court order to get records like that.

Answer 16

true :/