Personally I think we should get out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and use our trillion dollar military to invade countries that harbor cyber terrorist. And I include the people who created the fake anti virus, viruses as cyber terrorists. While destroying a persons computer, is not nearly as dramatic as blowing something up, it does far more property damage on a larger scale, and the suffering is spread across millions of people, instead of dozens or hundreds.

Some people think computers and they picture nerdy kids and stuff, not me though. I picture an old lady who uses the computer to keep in touch with her grand children. I see my mother, playing games on myspace and trying to keep in touch with her friends. I see small business people, trying to make a living so they can feed their family. I see young kids, just playing and trying to have fun.

What kind of sick person, goes around trying to ruin other people's lives? In my opinion, destroying someone's computer is worse than mugging them. For starters a new computer probably costs more than a person would be carrying around on them. Secondly, its such a personal attack, to target someone's computer.

Like you mentioned though, hacking is a pretty board and vague term. Not all of which are really that harmful. Normally I don't think of viruses and hacking in the same terms, because in my opinion people who use viruses are far worse, and usually full blown criminals. You mentioned viruses though, so I am curious what kind of stuff you have done in regards to them.