Hackers Are not Criminals

Another one got caught today; it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"... Damn kids. They're all alike. But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1960's techno-brain, ever took a look behind the eyes of a real hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces moulded him, what may have fashioned him to something that you today call a criminal?
The story begins in his school... He is smarter than most of the other kids, the crap they teach him is bore... …