Engaging The Culture Of Narcissism

Whenever I have the privilege of addressing a group on the topicof people who perpetrate premeditated attacks on computer systems,a singular, troubling question inevitably arises: Why do they doit?

Of course, for the garden-variety criminal, the answer–monetarygain–is obvious. But what about those “crackers” who simply want to“break things,” as hacking expert Eric S. Raymond notes in a recentcolumn of mine? Why do they risk the embarrassment of arrest andthe very real possibility of jail time and hefty fines by releasingmalicious code or destroying a company's ability to do business onthe Web?

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