CHICAGO — Sure, they might take your credit card information, stop you from watching Netflix and figure a way to use any key fob to access your car, but don’t think too poorly of hackers.
Their mindset drives innovation that benefits humanity, said inventor, futurist — and hacker — Pablos Holman.
“You need that discovery process to get every new technology,” he said, noting hackers’ propensity to disassemble new gadgets immediately. “They flip it over, take out all the screws, break it into a lot of little pieces — but then figure out what can we build from that rubble.
“It’s that discovery process that starts every new invention, every new innovation,” Holman said. “You can’t get a new invention by reading the directions. That’s never happened before. That never will happen.”
Many technologists distinguish between hackers working to improve software and those working to exploit it, a divide known as white hat and black hat. The FBI is among the organizations that hire white-hat hackers. For the full article click here
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