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As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal.

While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.

We now see hacking taking place by foreign governments and by private individuals all around the world.

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.