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            Even though hacking causes a lot of distress for people, it does have its own advantages. Hackers, in their idealistic naiveté, reveal the facts that they discover, without regard for money, corporate secrets or government cover-ups. Hackers actually allow people to be aware of the wrong doings of organizations and the governments.

            Through hacking, the weaknesses in a computer system can be found out and hence are improved on. This makes the computer system more secured. Hacking also helps to generate results in a particular program faster. For example, you are playing a computer game. of having to play all the way from level 0 to level 100 000 to finish the game, which would probably take you at least two to three months to do so, if you know how to hack the game, you could complete the game within one or two weeks.

            A lot of times, new technologies are designed by those who were hacking the old technologies. The result is usually more security and systems that know what people will find useful.  

            Basically, hackers are the one who are always pushing strong encryption. Many hackers actually have Websites to provide information about how different hacks are done and what could be done to avoid and prevent them. Hence we are faced with a dilemma; should we be grateful to the hackers for hacking our computer and network systems so that we could improve on the security systems, or should we berate them for giving us so many problems and inconveniences?

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