Hacking?

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I think it is OK if you have permission to hack into the system. For example, if you were looking for security problems in a certain piece of software, you may have to try and hack into it to see if it really is a problem, then you can fix it, and I'm pretty sure that is not illegal.

Although hacking into a system without permission is probably illegal and causing damage certainly will be.

I'm pretty sure that as long as you have permission, you can do so. I know a guy who offers ethical hacking (aka security testing) as one of his services. Interestingly enough he reckons the best way to break into a system (at larger companies) is to pose as an IT guy and simply ask a user for their access details under a flimsy pretext.

Hm. I'm in the UK. I don't know the law here. I think I'll steer clear anyway. Perhaps just hacking into the school network every so often will please me. Once I hacked into the network which allowed me to send a message to anyone that was using a computer at that time. I sent a message to my classmates, and they were VERY confused. Only bad thing was that it showed "From: <my user name>".