Hacking In the Business Society.

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Hacking In the Business Society

From history we can observer that “human society” is easily influenced, and often mislead.  There is a near endless amount of examples for this, ranging from the Suicidal Sect leaders (David Koresh  ), to mad dictators, with aspirations of taking over the world.  This human susceptibility of being easily mislead, is clearly apparent when dealing with the issue of “Hacking”, and “Hacking In the Business Society”.  The movie industry has played a great role in misinforming society of who a hacker is, and what they can do. (“How Hollywood portrays hackers” Andrew Brandet  )  For this reason it is essential to define key concepts and terminology before one can discus this issue.

“Hacking”, unfortunately, has become a word, with many various meanings.  For the sake of discussion, hacking will be defined, here, as:  “Breaking into a system”, where “system” is defined to be a computer, server, database, software, or any other source of computerized information.

Another term that is not evident is “Business Society”. The business society comprises of:

  1. Organizations (Firms, Companies, etc)
  2. Employees
  3. Consumers
  4. The Government
  5. Hackers

This may seem a strange way to describe the “Business Society”, but it is vital to realize that they all play a very significant role in Business, and hence all should be included when discussing this matter.

        Now that the key terms have been asserted, one must ask “What is the underlying issue?”  It can be encapsulated with the following statement:

 

Due to the overwhelming rate of technological advancements including that of “the personal computer”,  

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The Business Society has been left in a state of somewhat Ignorance,  

Causing a flood of Security threats of a new, higher degree to arise, 

Resulting in a panic-driven attempt to patch or catch-up with these new level threats,

At the potential expense of the Employees, and consumers privacy and service.

Hacking in itself is not a new affair; it is more the vast availability of computers that has revolutionized the network security sector.  (“The Era of the Personal Computer” ). The fact that computers where becoming very cheap opened the market to common home users, and computers became very ...

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