Did you know you can hire someone to hack something for you? Sounds pretty sweet if you ask me. I had no idea that hackerslist.com was a thing, and it seems very interesting. For those of you who do not know of this site, it is basically a freelance website for hacking projects. If there is something you need hacked, post on the site and a hacker will respond and do the job for a price. This can benefit many people who are trying to do simple things such as downloading all of their emails but not knowing how to in the quickest way possible.
Most of the time when you hear the word "hacker" it is linked to a negative connotation. This article points out that not all hacking is a bad thing. King explains that "Historically, a hacker is a technologist who has a particular sort of adventuresome and enthusiastic orientation to the creation and improvement of technology." These hackers are on a mission to find a new a better way to use technology in a constructive way. On the other hand, there are disruptive hackers who, like the Target data breach incident, are hacking to make money momentarily and only benefit themselves while hurting many others in the process.
Technology is definitely a factor into why hackers are motivated to do what they do. King explains an example of an iPhone that does not have the right language software available, so hackers hack the phone to allow for the language of their choice. He also brings up jailbreaking an iPhone, which was the exact example I was thinking of when reading the topic of technology motivating hacking. People jailbreak their iPhones and iPods to make it more customizable. The hacking alters the technology to not necessarily make it better, but to make it fit to their liking.
Overall, I'm open to hacking technology as long as it is constructive and not destructive.
Source: http://digitalethics.org/essays/good-reasons-hire-hacker/
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