These first hackers did things such as probe systems to find out how they worked and how to make it give out secrets just as hackers do today. They believed computer time and software should be free and freely shared and resented those who protected ownership. ... There is the curious hacker, the thrill seeker, and the person who wants information about computers and their flaws, the power seeker, the vandal, the person who steals industrial information, secrets and/or intellectual property, the person who steals money, the person who performs industrial espionage, the terrorist, and the inter...

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This gave the user of the computer a program to help them run their system, but the CP/M was not guaranteed for files to be compatible to be shared with other computers. ... In 1980, IBM started a secret project called "acorn" and thirteen months later IBM released the IBM PC and this let people know the PC was something that was going to be big. When the IBM PC hit the market, it was released as a whole system and IBM had secretly given PC prototypes to software developers so when it was released, there was many programs and accessories available for the new machine. ...

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The cons against this means of solving the problem is that the employer is violating what his/her employees choose to make public, and since they do not know they are being watched, the choice to share that knowledge of what they are doing on their computer, is being compromised. ... The company is able to invade the privacy of its employees to the extent of monitoring their computers, but they are not in this case also invading their privacy by doing so in secret. The cons in this procedure are that the employees autonomy is being compromised in having what they decide to share with others ma...

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