Maybe if they tried to educate themselves a bit more, they'd find that hacking/cracking/ phreaking isn't quite what they thought...but then again, I could be entirely wrong.
You are entirely right.

A Remark:
I don't think a newbie always get flamed in here. When it's a serious question there always ppl answering and btw newbies could come up with usefull info too. Sure they do!