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Hackers I. Introduction If you ask anyone that knows a few things about computers, just the basic things, about what a hacker is you will definitely get an answer. Not everyone has the same perception, but everyone has a slight idea in their mind of what a hacker is. Usually people fantasize a hacker to be someone that spends most of his time in front of a computer screen trying to break into various systems, and that person is usually someone who is very clever and rejected from society. Of course there are other people that fantasize a hacker to be someone very “cool”, who has the power to shut down a server or break into a system and make fun of people. In some cases people are right and in some other cases the perception is wrong, but in most of the cases the hacker in the peoples mind is the person that the movies have introduced to us. II. What is a Hacker So what is really a hacker and what does he/she do? The hackers have been out there “for a long time and the term hackers was given back in the 1950s to some people as a mask of respect for their skills” (Furnell, 2002). This term was referred to people that knew how to handle very well the different hardware and create the most complicated software. As the yea