Most stories of hacking are sensationalized. Mitnick was kept in solitary confinement for 5 years because of it. Aaron Schwartz was driven to suicide because of

Most stories of hacking are sensationalized. Mitnick was kept in solitary confinement for 5 years because of it. Aaron Schwartz was driven to suicide because of it. All the way back to RTM, incidents of hacking are rarely understood even superficially by the media so they sensationalize it.