Evaluation:
Published: 02.05.2013.
Language: English
Level: College/University
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Hackers - New Terrorists', 1.
  • Essays 'Hackers - New Terrorists', 2.
Extract

Anyway, there are also situations in which companies support and even award
hackers which have found important security bugs in their software, mostly webbrowsers.
There I can mention Google because at the beginning of this year it announced a contest in which hackers might earn up to 3 million dollars if they found any security bug in their web-browser (Google hrome). Important problems and bugs weren’t found so Google even awarded the best enthusiasts.
In conclusion I can say that hackers in most cases aren’t terrorists but we may
even call them – society heroes because they can access information and facts that
usual society members don’t know. With their actions hackers are showing that there is something wrong with big IT companies, products etc. and they need to change.…

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