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We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right.

I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then, when I was in school, computer hacking was encouraged. It was an encouraged activity. In fact, I remember one of the projects my teacher gave me was writing a log-in simulator.

Let's take flight simulation as an example. If you're trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You don't have to get in an airplane until late in the process.

Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell.

A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.

The personal computer can be a virtual device.

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

Hacking is exploiting security controls either in a technical, physical or a human-based element.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.