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We are currently in the midst of a crisis in the use of computers, and it is getting worse everyday. Our systems today are not as secure as one may think. They are considerable less secure that the paper system that we us today, and we are rapidly replacing the paper system with computers. The threat to our security as a nation is considerable, but the threat to an individual privacy and identity is even greater. Computer hacking as evolved so much since the 1980’s, today’s time and the future. First lets talk about what hacker is. The stock definition is that “ones who uses programming skills to gain illegal access to a computer network or file”. Hackers originally came to be known an individual who enjoys learning about computer systems and how to stretch their capabilities. Hacking can go back as far as 1878. The first report is of ten boys that kicked the phone system off just as a prank. Hacking has not been a real problem until the early 1980’s when IBM released the first personal computer. Within th