The evolution of hacking

• Computer hacking was once the realm of curious teenagers. It's now the arena of government spies, professional thieves and soldiers of fortune.
•  In 2012, Iran ruined 30,000 computers at Saudi oil producer Aramco.
•  North Korea's cyberattack on Sony Pictures last year.
• Computers were destroyed, executives' embarrassing emails were exposed, and the entire movie studio was thrown into chaos.
• The whole concept of "hacking" sprouted from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology nearly 50 years ago. 
• These new hackers were already figuring out how to alter computer software and hardware to speed it up, even as the scientists at AT&T Bell Labs were developing UNIX, one of the world's first major operating systems.
• Hacking became the art of figuring out unique solutions. It takes an insatiable curiosity about how things work; hackers wanted to make technology work better, or differently.
•  They were not inherently good or bad, just clever.