Is Hacking Unethical For Brit Teens?

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oi-Suparna Chakaraborthy

By Suparna Chakaraborthy

Friday, March 19, 2010, 17:36

One-fourth of British teens try to hack their pals" Facebook accounts, just for fun.

A survey conducted across a group of teens under 19, showed that the most common way of access was by "cracking" each other's passwords.

About 50 per cent of youngsters who accessed other's accounts used their personal computers or those at school. Though most of the teens hacked into other's accounts for fun, 21 per cent confessed that they wanted to cause trouble.

20 per cent of those who admitted hacking believed they could make money from it with 5 per cent describing it as a career option. 78 per cent of those who hacked admitted knowing that hacking was not right.

"Playing around with computers and trying to understand the system can be leveraged for good and bad purposes,"said Reuven Harrison, Co-Founder of Tufin Technologies. Harrison added that there is a fine line separating good from the bad.

Most of the time children fail to understand where the line of division is.