That is not the question. It shouldn’t even be a question – of course you shouldn’t. Hacking has fallen from its pedestal of good clean fun in the last few years. Gone are the days when the term “computer hacker� referred to someone capable of developing an ingenious solution to a programming problem. Today, hacker means “programmer with criminal intent “and it could land you in jail for life…

The tools of trade are network scanners, packet sniffers, rootkits and decompilers. But hackers have found that by using a particularly enticing message to lure users to open a mail works wonders as well. Search engines are also turning into potential weapons in the hands of today’s techy criminal.

So, beware: You probably haven’t just won R1, 000,000 because you’re the 9,999,999th visitor to a site (but that’s just a wild guess :-))...