Hackers and other criminals ...

Ba Nathalie Riedl

Hackers are not cool. They delete important data files or put a virus on your computer. They are able to crack passwords, so they can get access to your computer. Then they delete or change or put a virus on your data files. Some hackers also get into national computers, for exampel into military or a bank computers. There they delete an account or steal the money. In military computers they spy for another land. The damages which can result from hacking isenormous.
I think that hacking is foul, because not everybody is able to protect his computer as well as it is necessary. It is unfair to other people, because some think that their computer is safe and then a hacker comes and deletes everything. Maybe they have fun, but I am of the opinion that it is criminal to interfere with other people’s possessions. It makes one feel vulnerable and insecure. The internet should be a window into the world wide net and not an opportunity for gangsters to enter ones private world. It is all the more dangerous when hackers obtain bank or credit-card codes in order to steal people’s money. Therefore a lot of security measures have been undertaken but it is still not enough because the hackers are always one step ahead. The only advice one can give is that one should be very cautious when opening e-mails from adresses one does not know and that your anti virus programme should always
be the newest one.