Yes, it’s true. If you are one of those people who think hackers only do bad things, you are wrong. In fact, the term “hacker” is more of a good thing; the problem is that the media has convinced people to think that hackers only cause damage (but that’s going off on a tangent…). It’s like they say; the best protection is to think like the enemy, and that is exactly what these Internet companies hope to do.

Jesse Zbikowski wore a yellow tie, purple-tinted glasses and one red and one blue shoe as he hacked Yahoo’s Web sites one evening in late September — at the company’s own request.

Yahoo Inc., based in Sunnyvale, Calif., invited Zbikowski, a 29-year-old self-employed computer programmer living in San Francisco, and 500 other software hobbyists to an event it called “Hack Day.”[more]

Tags: Hackers, Good on the Net, Computer Protection