Is your Best Friend a Hack?
I was on myspace.com the other day and was appaled at the
number of young people interested in hacking into other people’s
sites. They even suggested getting a software called keylogger.
Oddly enough, keylogger is easily obtainable as a free download
and there are thousands of sites offering it under the category
surveillance and security software.
It allows a person to track keyboard behavior and desktop
behavior and I was surprised at how easily I can use it to
monitor my own computer as well as other people’s.
The legal ramnifications are not clear as to the liabilities
and consequences of hacking and there are very few cases relating
to it.
Most of us know hacking as people who ruin websites with
trojans and viruses and so forth. My websites was once hacked
with a domain hijacking and I was weary of people who would
go to lengths to ruin people’s day. There are many companies
who create and design anti-spyware and thank the lord for
Norton antivirus and McFee to block all the hacking efforts.
The FBI supposedly uses keylogger and other spyware to spy on known criminals and I can understand how it can be used
on the right side of the law. But on the wrong side of the
law or unethical uses by “black hat” users it can have a
devastating effect on a website owner.
I just hope that there are enough people out there to know
that hacking is unethical if not illegal and hope there are
technologies to prevent unauthorized use of the internet.
It’s bad enough for most of us marketers trying to stay on the
good side of the spam laws without worrying about hackers.
Norman Dreamer has 2 websites http://www.MidnightFantacy.com
and http://wxyz.0moola.com.