An observation about > The press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. ... There is obviously a cultural gap. The act of br

An observation about > The press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. ... There is obviously a cultural gap. The act of breaking into a computer system has to have the same social stigma as breaking into a neighbor's house. It should not matter that the neighbor's door is unlocked. If only it was just kids now. What's changed in the decades since is we have serious professionals beating on our doors now: state actors, mafia, miners, spammers, malvertisers, id thieves. They're well funded and organized. Amateurs don't stand a chance.