The hacking hobbyist
"It's fun in the same way chess is fun," Baker explained. "It's also productive. I look into these systems and find out more about how people are programming."
"Most other professionals have journals and conferences," Baker added. "We don't; we poke around other people's systems."
Baker is a member of a clan known as "gray-hat" hackers, who occupy the ethical territory between the malicious "black hats" and the "white hats," hired by companies to check their own systems' security.