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 Overview
If one were to enter the word "hacking" into google, the first results that come up are not about happenings or news, but are options that provide tools, 'degrees', and networks for people to improve their hacking skills. Clearly, hacking is big! According to the dictionary on my dashboard, to hack means "to use a computer to gain unauthorized access to data in a system". If there are experts on hacking all over the place, how can we consider the internet a safe place?

There are many different reasons for hacking. One high school student recently was jailed for hacking into school computers with the intent of changing grades, transcripts, and monitoring password use and protection. Getting into college is not the only reason people hack. A "Texas Man" was arrested last week on accounts of fraud. He hacked into computer systems and sent out e-mails promoting stocks that he and his members were invested in and manipulating their value. Offline and online, hacking involves dishonesty and manipulation of information to achieve some goal, whether it be monetary, in grades, or something else.

Recently, pictures of naked celebrities have been hacked and publicized across the internet. How? Foxnews outlines two potential routes that hackers can take to access personal information. First, since computers can run though data in short amounts of time, they can run through all possible password combinations and gain access. It is the most simple and basic way to hack. The second approach is called the "Trojan horse" method. It involved planting software on the victim's computer, thus making all programs and data on that computer accessible.

Hackers face varying degrees of punishment based on their acts. Distributing naked photographs of someone under eighteen would constitute child pornography and would warrant a greater punishment than a lesser act of hacking. However, most punishments consist of heavy fines and/or jail time.

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/22/overachiever-omar-shaid-khan-gets-jail-for-stealing-tests-hacki/ http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-21/texas-man-allegedly-used-hacking-in-securities-fraud-scheme.html http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/03/18/jessica-alba-christina-aguilera-added-hacked-nude-pic-probe/

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