HACK?

The term hack exists since 1960's that first starting at the model train club to mainframe computer rooms. After years, hack started being apply to less reputable inquiry. What is hacker? Based on dictionary, hacker is a person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data or an enthusiastic and skillful computer programmer or user, cyber-criminal. From my perspective view and majority people, hacker is a person who modify the computer system illegally and edit the original creator's information privately or crack people's information by using some computer techniques. They knows everything about computers and they can do anything with a computer. Hacking considered as a typical case that happens among the computer system technology these days. After doing some research and user test, I found that most of the hacking case barely happens in computer security whereby people used to break the firewall and steal information and accounts. Besides that, it also exist in phone, brain and many other forms. Being a hacker is not a job or duty, it is a hobby whereby they do it just for fun without getting money.

Source(s):

Bradley Mitchell(2013) 'What Is Hacker?' About.com. [Online] Available at: http://compnetworking.about.com/od/networksecurityprivacy/f/what-is-hacking.htm [Accessed on: 1st December 2013]

Wikipedia(2013) 'Hacker'(computer security). [Online] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(computer_security) [Accessed on: 1st December 2013]

'What Is Hacking?' [Online] Available at: http://whatishacking.org/ [Accessed on: 1st December 2013]

Topic picked

After few days of studying about the topics given, : 

1. Identify the established creative figures in your field of practice who have achieved success in a digital economy. Compare and assess their methods for thriving in a market where so much is free or pirated.

2. Examine the future of the world as represented in a popular science fiction film, game, or novel. Selection should consider a title where media or communication plays a major role in its scenario. Evaluate the likelihood or lessons of this futuristic vision in relations to actual current knowledge and developments.

3. Briefly trace the arrival of the Internet to Malaysia, analyse recent reports on the current state of the web in our country, and present the findings that may have the most impact on your field of practice.

4. Identify a distinctive digital design aesthetic or an online community particular to an Asian region or country. Explain how contextual factors influenced its development and can improve our appreciation of it.

5. Assess the roles and policies Malaysian Commission of Multimedia Communication and compare them with a similar organisation of another country. Which institution is more effective in serving the needs of the citizens?

6. Hackers are the heroes of the 21st Century. Argue for or against this statement.

7. Select a social networking site or digital art work and demonstrate how the analysis of the same artefact may differ when different critical theory or concepts are used. Which interpretation produced the most value or insight to the site/artefact?

I've decided to pick question number 6, which is, Hackers are the heroes of the 21st Century. Argue for or against this statement.

The reason why i choose this question because among all the questions, i felt that it is straight to point to what it mention (hackers).