How Hacker changed the world; an retrospect

Hackers are undoubtedly very influential today; in China when somebody asked the children, what kind of occupation they would like to hold when they become older, some children expressed an desire to become a hacker. In China, hackers are sometimes treated like national heroes who practice a form of cyberwarfare with the United States and other target countries. In this sense, hackers have become involved in political affairs by actively sabotaging websites of an political nature. The documentary How hackers changed the world served to illustrate that our increasing dependence on the internet means that we are also increasingly more affected by the effects of hackers, who used this increased exposure to magnify the effects of their malicious actions. It obviously, also explains that the hacker phenomenon is not a good thing overall, because of all the security dangers it makes. Hackers today aren't limited to using it as a political weapon; it became possible for hackers to hack stores and email to receive personal information that could yield financial information. Not only that, by hacking into cyptocurrencies such as Bitcoins, they are also able to make off with virtual money. The combined effects of politics and economics ensure that hackers aren't for show and that their effects spread far and wide.

A possible danger of hacking is sometimes cited as a concern in the US defense department because it uses many components made in China, especially in their high level military assets, such as jet fighters. It is often speculated by movies that if someday, all of those devices made in China were to suddenly activate itself by remote and all of the devices in America were to fall under Chinese control, it would render the United States government powerless against the Chinese threat. While this scenario is likely false, hiding rogue code in devices is remarkably easy and extremely difficult to detect. This makes the situation very dicey if China does indeed have such a plan. In this way, hackers change the world's perception of the dangers of the internet and how an increasing dependence on the internet can create problems for reasons of international security.