BEING HACKER IS LIKE TO BEING OFFENDER AND FRAUDULENT

Society´s rules have always been broken by offenders; when owners of technology change their thinking about help development of world with money and business, offenders begin to defend us, their Informal name is hacker and their formal name is Black and white hats. There are many people that use technology in favor of population and against the technology companies, their contributions to software and technology development have aided all world.

First of all, studies demonstrate that hackers are teenagers, young and old people around the world, these kinds of people spend a lot of time to try removing safety programs. Moreover, networks of companies are infected by hackers and they give opportunities of poor people to have access technology such as anti virus, among others. Scientists found research about the majorities percentage of hackers are against of the high price each program from free software.

Apart of this, statistics demonstrate that 55% of hackers prefer thief million of money of banks, 89% of teenagers hackers want to damage business of important companies to win less money. Also, they are famous and clever people that to be in prisons as a consequence of this fraud such as Vladimir Levin in Russia, he said that he was arrested by Interpol and sentenced to three years in prison; this was a few punishment as prove that lows are in favor of companies.

In conclusion, the hackers are kind crime to society against of the technology business men. I believe, hackers are important in this world to change from all people have access of all kind of technology to they have the same opportunities that rich people worldwide.

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT EU picks ex-hacker to monitor Microsoft

By Kevin J. O'Brien

Published: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2005

BERLIN: The European Commission on Wednesday called on Neil Barrett, a former computer hacker who is now an expert on fraud, to monitor whether Microsoft is complying with orders to change the way it operates in Europe.

Barrett, a British author, professor and witness in criminal cases against hackers, was named monitoring trustee to the commission. In the paid position, Barrett is likely to play a role in the enforcement of orders for Microsoft to share source code for its server software with competitors and provide a version of Windows that does not include its Windows Media Player software.

The European case is a major front in the legal battle pitting the intellectual property rights of commercial software makers like Microsoft against developers of open-source software, who say having fewer copyright hurdles would benefit innovation.

Open-source advocates criticized the choice of Barrett, noting that Microsoft itself had proposed him as well as other candidates the commission had considered for the job.

"I find it funny that Microsoft was allowed to choose its own judge in this case, so to speak," said Bernhard Reiter, the coordinator for Germany of the Free Software Foundation Europe, one of the groups that has sued Microsoft in European court.

Todd, a spokesman for the EU competition commission, said, "We think he will be a truly independent adviser."

Microsoft welcomed the appointment.

"We look forward to working constructively with Mr. Barrett to ensure the company's full compliance with the commission's decision," Dirk Delmartino, a Microsoft spokesman, said in Brussels.

Barrett, through a spokeswoman, declined to comment.

Also on Wednesday, the EU competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, met for a 45-minute breakfast with Steven Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive. After the meeting, Kroes told AFX that she and Ballmer planned to meet every four months.

Last month, Kroes said that the commission was considering opening new cases against the company. "We have had informal complaints, and we are using our time now to look at them," she said. "We're not going to wait and do nothing."

Barrett worked from 1993 through 1999 for the French computer services company Bull Information Services, where he advised the Inland Revenue and Customs agencies of Britain on Internet security issues.

Since 1999, he has been the technical director of Information Risk Management, a London company that advises businesses on computer security.

Barrett also teaches at the Royal Military College of Science at Cranfield University in Shrivenham, England, and at Glamorgan University in Wales. He has published five books on Internet crime. His latest, "Traces of Guilt," recounts his adolescence as a computer hacker and evolution to expert witness on computer hacking cases.

In the course of his work, Barrett has criticized Microsoft. In a December 2001 article published by Silicon.com, an online magazine for computer executives, Barrett was quoted as criticizing Microsoft for pressuring makers of security software to avoid disclosing details of attacks on Microsoft software.

Barrett also accused the U.S. software company of having a plan to corner the market in Internet security by withholding key details of its software. "Microsoft will attempt to control access to vital information," he was quoted as saying, meaning the company could sell security software "at any price they want to. To me that's a monopolistic situation."

As trustee to the European Commission, Barrett will help assess compliance with the commission's 2004 ruling that Microsoft abused its near-monopoly in desktop operating systems to squeeze out rival makers of media players and to prevent competitors from designing software that worked with its servers.

Microsoft, which is appealing the commission's ruling and its497 million, or $596 million, fine, has said it is cooperating fully with the commission's order.

But in September, Microsoft filed a second suit at the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg challenging the commission's order that it give away its secret server-operating protocols to competitors.

Microsoft also has been increasing efforts to improve relations with European governments, some of which are opting for operating systems based on open standards.

In February in Prague, and in April in Dubai, Microsoft drew more than 500 European government officials to two gatherings called Government Leadership Forums, where company executives discussed the concerns and software needs of government administrators.

Microsoft's Government Security Program gives European governments access to its source code to address security and privacy issues.

"The Free Software Foundation Europe remains convinced that Microsoft has not yet complied with the conditions and is still looking for loopholes in the conditions which will allow them to postpone any release of documents necessary for interoperability," said Jonas Öberg, vice president of the Free Software Foundation Europe. "We hope that this delaying tactic will not work with Mr. Barrett and that Microsoft will not be allowed to use the loopholes."

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INFORMATION ABOUT HACKERS PROGRAMMING

Major Hackers Personalities

This section contains brief information on some of the most famous hackers, both black and white hats. The individuals below are well known for a variety of reasons: their actions, whether good or bad, their contributions to software and technology development, or their innovative approach, skills and ability to think out of the box.

Richard Stallman is known as the father of free software. When Stallman started working at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1971 he was confronted with 'non disclosure agreements' and closed program sources while he was hacking and improving system drivers the 'traditional way'. After an interesting battle to obtain the source code of a faulty printer utility, Stallman gave up his job and became the loudest advocate for free computer software, creating GNU and the Free Software Foundation in the process.

Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson are famous for two major software developments of the 20th century: the UNIX operating system and the C programming language. These two began their carriers at Bell Labs in 1960's, revolutionising the computer world forever with their ideas. While Ken Thompson has retired from the computer world, Dennis Ritchie is still employed at Lucent Technology, working on a new operating system derived from Unix, called 'Plan9'.

John Draper, aka 'Cap'n Crunch' is famous for his ability to hack phone systems using nothing but a whistle from the 'Cap'n Crunch' cereal boxes (hence the nickname). Besides being the father of 'phone phreaking', John Draper is also famous for writing what was perhaps the first IBM PC word processor. He now heads his own security venture, developing antispam solutions, thwarting hacker attacks and securing PCs.

Robert Morris is famous for creating the first Internet worm in 1988. It infected thousand of systems, and practically brought the Internet to a halt for nearly a day. The 'Morris Worm' was perhaps the first fully automated hacking tool, exploiting a couple of unpatched vulnerabilities on Vax and Sun computers.

Kevin Mitnick, possibly the best known case of a 'black hat', was caught by the computer expert Tsutomu Shimomura back in 1995.

Kevin Poulsen remains famous for his 1990 hack of the phone system in Los Angeles. This enabled him to become the 102nd caller in a radio-phone and win a Porsche 944. Kevin Poulsen was eventually caught and imprisoned for three years. He now works as a columnist for the online security magazine 'SecurityFocus'.

Vladimir Levin, a Russian computer expert, hacked into Citibank and extracted USD $10 million. He was arrested by Interpol in UK, back in 1995 and sentenced to three years in prison, as well as being required to pay USD $240,015 in restitution.

Tsutomu Shimomura is a good example of a 'white hat'. He was working for the San Diego Supercomputing Center when Kevin Mitnick broke into his network and stole information on cellular technology and other classified data. Tsutomu started the pursuit for Mitnick which eventually led to his arrest.

Linus Torvalds is known as the Other of Linux, the most popular Unix-based operating system in use nowadays. Linus started his work on a new operating system in 1991, adopting several controversial technologies for his project, namely the concept of Free Software and GNU's Public License system. He is also known for his early disputes with Andrew Tannenbaum, the author of Minix, which was the inspirational source for Linus' OS project.

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BILL GATES THE MOST SUCCESS PERSON TO PROGRAMMING

Programming was invented by Bill Gates in United State; he has been a important person around the world. His intelligence had been reflecting in million programming to different companies. Bill Gates is the richest man in America. Also he has been development a special social program to help poor people around the world with his money. However, he might spend money in poor companies to help their have more opportunities to be competitive in global world.

Firstly, Bill Gates has a beautiful thinking about to help majority percentage of population poor around the world. Also He has a foundation to bring things that people need to life. Furthermore, statistics studies demonstrated that 45% of people in South Africa need food, 76% of inhabitants need clothes and 65% of population want to have a place where sleep. Bill Gates Said that this statistics show increase in poverty worldwide and his foundation to pretended decrease this problem to society.

Apart of that, donation have being given by poor people but there are other way to help society such as invert in companies that they don´t have opportunities development their. Experts consider that high percentage money can be investment in this kind of group to have development into society. .

I believe, investment should share in same pieces to both groups to need to help and there are into society to aid world.

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