"Hacker" is one of those words that came to add to the common vocabulary, everyone has heard it and many have used it, although many times not correctly.
From my point of view, hackers are mostly seen as the bad guys in the movie, those who get into your files and hack your information, those who steal passwords, those who can leave a bank account in zeros, They steal confidential information from companies and governments, in short, hackers are a problem.
Being a hacker is not synonymous with being bad. In fact, thanks to hackers, many of the technologies we use today are safe, for example: The security of ATMs in banks was reinforced when a computer security expert, a hacker, named Barnaby Jack, managed to find a failure that allowed to empty all the money that had an ATM.
"Sometimes you have to prove a threat to provoke a solution" -Barnaby Jack.
The truth is that I personally see a bad perspective of collective knowledge about what they are and what they can do. Maybe if it's because their skills allow them access to where they should not have it, something that is clearly illegal and can not be justified, but at the same time it becomes a contradiction, how could they find all those failures or the information that should be public if you do not skip the laws. How could Barnaby Jack have found the vulnerability of ATMs totally legal?
I think this is when we use the phrase: "God creates them and the devil brings them together" ... or maybe it is a necessary evil. The truth of what I think is that playing your skills in hacking more than bad is a good, as one of the hackers that I admire a lot (Chema Alonso) says: "There is no bad hacker" because if he manages to play his skills at maximum in hacking is a success for him. There are only people with intentions beyond learning or playing skills for a common good with the rest, that is they have personal interests and only think about how to take advantage of their talent or knowledge.
However, not many think like me and two types of hacker concepts have been made of white hats that would be what support computer security as the hacker Barnaby Jack. And other so-called black hat hackers or Crackers, use their computer knowledge to damage the security of computer systems. In addition, the damages they cause are not always for economic purposes, they can also do so for the purpose of protest or simply for fun.
Now that we know "the difference between good and bad hackers", it is easier for us to understand the news about it and not end up putting them all in the same bag. The sack of ignorance of the technological era.
