Hackers Profiled — Who Are They and What Are Their Motivations?
Richard Barber · Computer Fraud & Security · 2001
A great many people see all hackers as immature, spotty teenagers with good computer skills and no regard for the damage they do when they hack systems. The truth is very different. The hacker community as a whole is a very broad church. This article will aim to define a number of different groups of hackers, analyse their motivations and look at the sort of threats they pose to businesses.