Monday, June 28, 2010

The world of hackers

i understand the term 'Ethical hacking' and when i say i understand i men i am literate in terms of what it means but in a ways i really do not understand.

If you hack you hack, what is ethical about it. It reminds me of the dialogue in - enemy of the State - when Will Smith's wife says - who is going to monitor the monitors of monitors. It sounds like that to me.

My concern is how do i know who is hacking into my account, when is some one hacking into my account. What beats me completely is what keeps people engaged on to wanting to lap up over information and more information and more and it seems like no dearth of apatite for some.

I wonder what have the James Bond's and the Byomkesh Bakshi's and the new age DON's contributed to the need in us to investigate. Or is it some childhood dream that we are wanting to live.

How irritating it can be to realize that you have been hacked - always stumbling over mails and not realizing what people are talking. Till you realize there are couple of mails which looked marked read actually you have not gone through. It almost is like two users using one account and creating mess for themselves and others. So one is the entire issue of going back and forth, back and forth trying to make sense of what you missed and what you did not.

Secondly to create an encyclopedia of passwords. Every time i realize there is something funny with my mail i change the password and for a while then it is all fine. But now guys i have done it almost at an average of once a month and i have run short of all the references to create a password for myself.

Lost between the Ethics and Hacking i stand in this World wide Web -

to all the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_private_investigators

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