All '1337 h4ckerz' or whatever should be put to death slowly and painfully. In general, I don't have a problem with most hackers. If they just want to hack into a government system or bypass annoying things put on school computers then I don't mind (I have an anacdote about that*). But if they maliciously make viruses then they should also be put to death in the same way as the '1337 d00dz'.
* Here's the anacdote:
I once gained access to the C drive (anybody could do it - you just need to know the 'about:' protocall in IE) on the school PCs so I could send an instant message to someone in the same room - just for fun. I used the winpopup application in the windows directory - all the PCs are on a network. Anyway, we sent a few messages until the ovelty wore off. Later on, I find myself being told off by the ICT administrator because she had hired someone to come into school to install some new application. It turns out that us sending messages to each other caused some problem that took this hired expert £300 (or was it £3,000? I forget...) to fix.
As far as I can remember since then (this was quite early in my first year in that school, mind) every time the network has been maintained, they've made the PCs inaccessable.
And just think about it. If I hadn't *giggles* made the network crash that day, they may still be leaving the PCs accessable to anybody to mess up the network maintenance.
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