SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Innocent Victims, Suicide Of Amanda Todd, Iceberg

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3750
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

Document Summary

Hackers individuals with an interest in technology who use their knowledge to access computers and devices with or without authorization from the owner. Hacking is deviant, but not always malicious: testing security of hardware and software, the challenge is valued, some share their knowledge to improve design and security. Malicious activity: development and distribution of malware. Most didn"t want to cause damage challenge and sense of power that mattered: others sought to exploit vulnerabilities. Anxiety over youth and computer technology facilitated a hacker archetype: pathologically addiction to computers, lonely, socially inept, yet, they had an unbounded, magical power over computers. Late 1980s, us business demanded legal action computer security industry emerged with warnings: hackers constructed as a criminal threat. 1990s emergence of the internet, e-commerce, and vast global networks: hacking community grew increasingly global, criminal minority capitalized on proliferation of targets. Estimated cost of cybercrime to global economy in 2013 - billion to trillion.