Hackers, crackers, etc... Everyone speaks about them. But here, it does not matter which image the media tries to give them, they all seem to forget the nuance for determining the phenomenon. It is however very simple: the universe of the hackers is too vast to classify them into a single category; and very often we speak about them as if one would describe somebody while concentrating on a wild fire...
Of course, the hackers are those who try to give us marvellous viruses and others trojans. It happens when people have fun with data processing and it gives results very... shall we say " original ". One of the last lucky finds in this vein is called PLATAN a nice Trojan which collects " passwords " that appear on your computer and then send them by e-mail to onegin@mailru.com.

But the opposite also exists. They are also people who simply like to defy the institutions. The individuals opposing to the industry. A kind of cyber-"Robin Hood ", which takes from the " large " to give to the " small ".
The hackers are people who very often want " to only divert themselves " by using technology. For example, how not to laugh by seeing the group "th3 p01s0n kr3w" putting all the efforts to introduce themselfe into the site http://www.indiepopradio.com / to replace the music which they played by Black Sabbath, Judas Priest etc... (reference: Computer Current). In all cases, it takes a different kind of humour to think of this kind of thing...

In reality, the hackers are a little like everyone. They want to be linked, be organized, be seen... A good example of that is: the convention of hackers which was held (despite everything...) in Israel, during the last week of March (reference: Yahoo News). More than 350 people attended various conferences (including a telephone conferance with Kevin Mitnick) and they had fun while playing " Spot The FED ", a contest where the person who managed to identify a representative of the law in the attendance could win a prestigious tee-shirt ``I spotted the FED' '.

To conclude, a hacker is only one person who dominated the computer, in one way or the another, to achieve his/her goal. There is nothing better than a hacker to speak about this funny relationship between the man and the computer. I quote a person present at the convention of Israel, following the telephone exchanges with Kevin Mitnick: "... All of us, here in this room, we have much sympathy for him because we know that not to be able to touch a computer is much worse than to be in prison. "