Even the world's greatest hacker will eventually make a mistake. Even the greatest ever is still fallible. Hacking networks may be something like an art form, but it's criminal all the same. There are "helpful" and "unhelpful" ways to use this ability, but a (relative) little knowledge is a dangerous thing, is it not?

Computer programming may just be the non-supernatural equivalent of magic. The hacker who surfs the big waves of cyberspace reminds me of the Disney classic, The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Essentially, it's a story that cautions against meddling in powers you don't fully comprehend.*  Gary MacKinnon had the mad skillz, but lacked the wisdom to know right from wrong.


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*The Apprentice summoned an army of walking broomsticks to carry buckets of water from the well to the cistern, but to his horror he couldn't stop make them stop once the cistern was full. Had the Sorcerer not returned to his lair just then, poor MIckey would have drowned ...