Ethical hacking is something the good guys do to keep the rest of us safe while on the internet. There is also a flip side where there is a training of future hackers to steal personal information using the skills they learned while becoming an ethical hacker. No matter your position on the matter, it is one of those things that needs to be done. Fighting the bad guys and predicting their moves before they do them by knowing all of their tricks.
You may have seen on my homepage that I am a computer science major. I thought about majoring in cyber security for the simple reason that with all of the advancing technologies available to us, each of them are going to need to be secured and safe to use. In order to make all of our virtual platforms safe, we need to know how a criminal hacker operates. That is where an ethical hacker comes in.
The more ethical hackers on the side of good to combat criminals the better. No matter what new technologies come out, there is always going to be someone who wants to take advantage it. Ethical hackers know all the tricks and stop criminals in their tracks by using their own tactics.
If you know of anyone who has a passion in cyber security, please encourage that person to pursue that dream for there is always going to be a job in cyber security and they are doing it for the betterment of the people using their products in the future. There are a lot of people that do not know the ins and outs of how a computer works or how they can protect themselves while online. Ethical hackers have a duty to those people and all the other without an intimate knowledge of computer safety practices to make those platforms safe for the average user to use.
What are your thoughts on ethical hacking? Do you think it is a necessary practice like I do or do you disagree?
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