I Made Stupid Decisions As A Kid,

You Can't Go To Windows Update And Get A Patch For Stupidity.

A Company Can Spend Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars On Firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems And Encryption And Other Security Technologies, But If An Attacker Can Call One Trusted Person Within The Company, And That Person Complies, And If The Attacker Gets In, Then All That Money Spent On Technology Is Essentially Wasted.

It Was Used For Decades To Describe Talented Computer Enthusiasts, People Whose Skill At Using Computers To Solve Technical Problems And Puzzles Was - And Is - Respected And Admired By Others Possessing Similar Technical Skills.

Oracle, For Example, Has Even Hired People To Dumpster Dive For Information About Its Competitor, Microsoft. It's Not Even Illegal, Because Trash Isn't Covered By Data Secrecy Laws.

As A Young Boy, I Was Taught In High School That Hacking Was Cool.