Is Hacking a Crime

 

Read the following article to answer these questions - Is Computer Hacking a Crime?

1. When does hacking become a criminal act?

2. You navigate to a puplic website and then trim back the URL to see all the files on the site. Is this illegal?

3. What if the public website referred to in question #2 was the whitehouse.gov or defense.gov web site?

4. What is a cracker? What is another name for a cracker?

5. Is hacking ever legal? Explain.