There are many misconceptions, as to the definition, of what a hacker truly is, in all my research this is the best definition I’ve found: Pretend your walking down the street, the same street you have always walked down. One day, you see a big wooden or metal box with wires coming out of it sitting on the sidewalk where there had been none. Many people won’t even notice. Others might say, "Oh, …showed first 75 words of 282 total…

…showed last 75 words of 282 total…and can only lead to a quick trip up the river. Let's say that everyone was given an opportunity to hack without any worry of prosecution with free access to a safe system to hack from, with the only catch being that you could not hack certain systems. Military, government, financial, commercial and university systems would all still be fair game. Every operating system, every application, every network type all open to your curious minds.