SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Argot, Hacktivism, Suicide Of Amanda Todd

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Parnaby

Document Summary

Use of technology to gain access/control of someone else"s technology with or without their permission. Some may be hired to show companies how they need to change their software to stay safe. This is what we think about when talking about hacking. Intent on wreaking havoc on the world"s computer systems. Young people started to access major corporations using their pcs . Estimated cost: billion to trillion a year. Hacking culture went from innocent teens to criminal masterminds. Vast majority of hackers are high school kids with moderate skills. Sometimes the impact is so severe that we"re forced to pay attention. To find out what they"re up to and how they do it. This provides excellent data on hackers that aren"t malicious. They have been socialized to be enamoured with technology. Women socialized to kinda stray away from it. Learning to develop these skill sets through interactions with others. Largely responsible for the new ways to hack/new code.