a small percentage. Most people would call the whole Linux community hackers, because anyone who has the knowledge to run Unix must be a hacker. This show what good hackers can do. The entire Unix GNU community is run by hackers. They all contribute toward a free operating system. They all work out the bugs, and then distribute it for free. Hackers got tired of paying for an OS that did not work well. So they all worked together Today Linux is one of the fastest growing OS’s on the planet. Many would say that Linux is buggy simply because its free, but it’s made by the same people who can get into any computer, or write any program to fit their needs. All Hackers are not good, but then again, all people are not good. In any case, the hacker community as a whole, has done many things for end uses. First of all they help companies make they transactions securer. Second they help develop new code, and help work the bugs out of old code. And lastly, all hackers really want to do is learn. Even if it means “breaking in to” a computer. Most hackers break in simply to learn. Very few will touch any data. A hackers goal is for the systems administator to never even know that the hacker was in the system in the first place. The Hacker’s Manifesto by the Mentor, is a classic example of how hackers feel that the rest of the world does not understand us. It shows how hackers were once shunned from society and created their own underground society. In fact 2600 Magazine has been published since the early eighties. Many articles are in this magazine about how hackers are merely misunderstood. This is the most famous article: Hackers Manifesto By: +++The Mentor+++ Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"... Damn kids. They're all alike. But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, Ever take a look be...
