Hackers For Hire
Have you ever wondered what fuels a hacker to invest his/her time, skills and resources into criminal activities? Is it for the money? Maybe. But many of these people get rich fast that they practically can't ever spend it. Take the Anonymous group for example.
They are not hacking for personal gains. They hack to demonstrate just how easy it is to break the defenses of companies that hold your data, and to promote their ideology.
Whatever the motivation is for these hackers, there's a few characteristics they seem to all have in common, intelligence likely being on top of the list and these very smart people with most of them excelling in mathematics, physics, and other kinds of computational sciences. They all started hacking in their early to mid teens, at a time when their moral compass was not yet developed. Most of them also greatly lack social skills and exhibit strong signs of Asperger's syndrome, symptoms of which can prove to be tremendous advantages when it comes to hacking.
Almost all the hackers that fall foul to the law say the same thing: "Please, please give us a chance to work in the legitimate industry. We just never knew how to get there, what we were doing. We want to work with you."
