>Being a mischievous teenage hacker didn't land you in prison. On this note: Hacking, cracking and phreaking were done purely for curiosity sake. Even virus de

>Being a mischievous teenage hacker didn't land you in prison. On this note: Hacking, cracking and phreaking were done purely for curiosity sake. Even virus developers did it just because they could. There was a sense in the community of pushing the technology to its limits. Nowadays hacking, cracking and all the 'black arts' are for pure profit. Being it private or government...