If you ask any generally acknowledged "hacker" of there illegal activities, are you sure there going to open admit to using programs and doing somthing illegal. That to me sounds like a skript Kiddie move.
This was truly more of a hypothetical situation. I assumed you would have taken it as such. I don't go around enquiring about people's pasts, that's not the point. Allow me to rephrase it in hopes of being slightly clearer to some:

"Would we be able to acquire some betazoids, or any run the of the mill telepaths, and peer into a hacker's thoughts and past experiences, we may.."


It's not natural infact it's illegal, and stealing if you don't have rights to us it , as a programmer I would be pissed off if I had software or code that I didn't want out or didn't want someone to have.
You are once again misinterpretating what I said. Obviously, my comment only applied to code that was freely 'out there'. Open source, etc. If you're a programmer and prefer to keep your source code hidden from view, I think it's rather doubtful a script kiddie will reverse engineer your ware and abuse whatever code he acquires in his search.

I still don't get it am I supposed to be sympathetic now because of this thread.
I didn't ask for your sympathy, I merely hoped to start a discussion and possibly offer a different perspective on a tired out issue. If the exchange of knowledge and ideas is supposively what this culture cherishes the very most, then I would think you would be thanking me for starting this thread and not questioning the relevance of its very existence.