74). Being a rebel, and knowingly doing something that is wrong, is just the kind of thing that hackers do. The adrenaline rush that comes with doing something totally against the law, and knowingly doing so, is very intense. Hackers enjoy this feeling and get addicted to it. It is a great feeling that a hacker gets when they do this and this is why they are addicted (Vegetable 4). Hackers have to avoid the law. What they are doing is very illegal. The United States government passed the Computer Fraud and Abuse act in 1986. This law states that one can't intentionally break into a computer system, and then it gives the consequences of such an act. This was a follow-up law to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986. This law "outlawed the unauthorized interception of digital communications" (Sterling 195). These laws really haven't done much to prevent hackers from hacking. They most likely have decreased the number of hackers though. Young hackers may have been scared about getting caught, so they didn't go into the hacking industry. There is a plus side to these laws, but hackers don't see it that way (190). Hackers do have consequences because of the laws that the government has passed, but not many of them. Most hackers are good enough to cover their backs, and their trails, and their phone calls. If a hacker is caught, he can face a long time in jail. Unfortunately, this usually doesn't happen. A hacker covers his tracks so good, that there isn't much evidence to convict them. So hackers get off with a little jail time, and a little probation. The system isn't fair for the people who want to catch the hackers. Until someone develops a hack-proof system, hackers are still going to use all of their resources to hack into the system (Sterling 193). The hacker has resources or tools, to perform different tasks. A hacking tool will help a hacker hack. It takes some of the grunt work out of hacking. Some of the different tools ...
