If you ask any stranger on the street what they think about hackers,
you will probably get a surly look followed by a negative comment. The
reason for this is simple — over 80% of computer users have been
affected by a "hacking" incident. Whether it is a stolen credit card
or virus attacks, the media has labeled the people behind such
activity with the term "hacker." I am not going to bore you with the
semantics of hacker, cracker, whitehat, and blackhat, because you can
look those terms all over the internet. The point is that not all
hackers are bad. In fact, most hackers stay on the legitimate side of
the law and use their talents to create new technologies that you
benefit from. For example, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, the founders
of Apple, are often labeled as hackers.