That's the main thing with cyberspace and computers. The gray area is three times as big as both the black and the white. Rules are constantly be ng bent and sometimes even broken.
The bottom line is that while you should never trust a hacker you do not know, there are those that are good. The world of cyberspace and that of the computer hacker is one that is generally in the dark of the average American citizen. The government doesn't want to cause confusion and mass hysteria when it need not be induced. The reason society perceives a hacker as they do is because they only seethe evil in the news. There are never headlines about the Joe Schmoe working in his basement that wrote an antivirus program to prvent against something such as the Love Bug, now are there? When more peaceful, good hackers begin to be publicized is when this whole stereotype thing will end.
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