And with that remark you just confirmed what I said!
Of course, satisfying their curiosity is one reason for hackers to break in. Some are just plain curious. And some of those hackers will turn out to be malicious and destroy data on your system.
Thirteen year olds who read that crap in the hacker.faq or manifesto thingie do it with the hopes and dreams of turning on their computers and being something. A random title won't get you much attention... but toss the H word around for awhile and even the most mundane computer related tasks some how seem to gain more excitement.

curiosity...
I'll call curiosity just another buzzword at best.