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**Farson** · 06-14-2011, 02:48 PM

Depends, while it's a general invasion of privacy and possibly criminal actions, there are generally two sorts of 'hacker' (more correctly 'crackers') - those who do it for the challenge and do no harm, and those who do it explicitely to do harm and/or gain profit from it.

The first shouldn't do it and the security/IT guys should take it as a warning. The second are criminals, pure and simple, and should be punished as such - and have their fingers broken as a deterent to others!

I'm very fussy about giving details away and, as such, don't seem to have much hassle on a personal level - even SPAM is just one or two messages a month.

06-14-2011, 02:48 PM	#13
Farson Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 538 Senior Member	Depends, while it's a general invasion of privacy and possibly criminal actions, there are generally two sorts of 'hacker' (more correctly 'crackers') - those who do it for the challenge and do no harm, and those who do it explicitely to do harm and/or gain profit from it. The first shouldn't do it and the security/IT guys should take it as a warning. The second are criminals, pure and simple, and should be punished as such - and have their fingers broken as a deterent to others! I'm very fussy about giving details away and, as such, don't seem to have much hassle on a personal level - even SPAM is just one or two messages a month.
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