By: Christopher Douglas Last month, modems from the brand MikroTik were hacked and encoded with a virus which allows hackers to spy on the modems’ users (Khandelwal, 2018). People across the world are losing not only credit card information to these hackers, but social security numbers and other, more important information as well. Masses of people losing their private information is an all too common story that will continue to be told, but who does the telling? When you read the word hacker , what image does it conjure? A sweat-stained 28-year-old plopped down in front of a Cheeto-dust laden computer in his parents’ basement, giving himself unlimited V-bucks in Fortnite ? An evil villain dressed in black, typing faster than what is feasible? Interestingly enough, neither is a hacker. According to professor Vlad Jecan, hacking culture originated in the 1960s, and it had positive impacts on the developing comput...