> So how come financial hackers exploiting vulnerabilities in the tax code and making these sandwiches never do jail time, while computer hackers regularly do?

> So how come financial hackers exploiting vulnerabilities in the tax code and making these sandwiches never do jail time, while computer hackers regularly do? That's because Schneier defines hacking in the original sense of the word, subverting or misusing a system to get a desired, but unintended, result. The computer "hackers" doing jail time are not hackers by Scheier's definition.