Spackers

The art of hacking has long been something I have admired. Having the skills to covertly access information that is private or even better top secret has a certain cache. However, and this is a big "however," today's hackers are just plain stupid. They hack not for the thrill of accessing information, but for the purpose of spamming. They are spam hackers or spackers. How stupid is this? They use their "talents" to hack Facebook accounts and Web sites in order to send out product advertisements. What an incredible waste. The more creative ones will spoof a Web site and steal identities, but where is the real challenge in that? Any number of morons will fill out a piece of paper and give you their lives. They are right there with the cold-calling thieves that phone old people for money. There is no cache in this. You can't feel special or like you've accomplished something because your spam attack has made your site a top hit for Google for the two minutes before your site is blacklisted. How incredibly stupid. This makes me angry. These skills could be put to much better use or at least misuse.