Originally posted by SixNine
"Most of the regular contributors here concentrate on the practice of PREVENTING hackers from entering your system and doing damage, not hacking into others."

To prevent 'crackers' from getting access to peoples computers, one should study their methods and talk about it with others who have the same interest. I look at it this way: if the are serious enough, they going to find it out anway.

The only way the internet will become secure is when 'Hackers' are producing the cracks first. Instead of waiting for the 'Crackers' to do it then we figure out how to stop it.
True, as the evolution of exploits and fixes go, exploits are a step ahead, since you can't defend against something that doesn't exist...

What you have to do is make it so people won't want to crack into things. Our society is structed around making punishments, to prevent crimes, however... is there anything besides punishments that we can do? We can't teach intelligence or ethics, so that's probably out. (At any rate, we haven't had much luck.)