Crackers and Society
There is consensus that computer attackers can be divided in the following groups.
- Adolescent amateurs. They often have a basic knowledge of computer systems and apply scripts and techniques that are available on the internet.
- Adult amateurs. Most of them are motivated by the intellectual challenge.
- Professionals. They know much about computers. They are motivated by the financial reward but they are also fond of their activity.
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Famous quotes containing the word society:
“And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.”
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)