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Understanding the hacker psyche

2011; Elsevier BV; Volume: 2011; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s1353-4858(11)70130-1

1872-9371

Steve Gold,

Misinformation and Its Impacts

Analysing the psychology of the modern cyber-criminal is not as difficult as many IT security experts have opined in the media of the last few years. We've had a long time to study hackers and other online renegades, as their origins date back to the days of phone phreaking in the 1970s and 1980s. What drives the cyber-criminal mind? Hackers, cyber-criminals and other online renegades now have a long history and we can determine a number of types, ranging from unskilled ‘n00bs’ through technologically curious old-school hackers right up to hardened cyber-criminals and cyber-terrorists. What many have in common is a particular form of psychopathology. Steve Gold looks at how hackers think and, in particular, their exploitation of neuro-linguistic programming.