What is Hacking and Hackers

'Hacking' and 'Hackers' are terms that generally tend to have a negative effect on people. Most people straightaway start associating 'Hackers' with computer criminals or people who cause harm to systems, release viruses,etc.Nowadays the media has been wrongly and outrageously reffering to computer criminals as 'Hackers'.They fail to recognise the fact that criminals and hackers are two distinct terms and are not associated with wach other whatsover.People have wrong notions and for reasons not justified at all, they have a negative attitude and utter dislike for 'Hackers' and persons associated with 'Hacking'. Hackers in reality are actually good, pleasant and extremely intelligent people, who by using their knowledge in a constructive manner help organisations to secure documents and company secrets, help the government to protect national documents os strategic importance and even sometimes help justice to meet its end by ferreting out electronic evidence. Rather, these are the people who help to keep computer criminals on the run.