Yes, that's a linguistic issue.
I'd preferred you saying "criminal hackers",
since you're speaking to a technical audience here that still knows the difference between a hacker and a cracker, but that's nitpicking.

And I agree with what you say about the idiots entering unprotected networks "just because
they can", they're not helping. Maybe in the long run, but it's not worth the grief they cause for the innocent.

Still, despite above stated problem, without all these, sometimes idiotic, "hackers". IT-Security would be even worse off than it is now.
Therefore I'm very wary of all these new laws and regulations that forbid "hacking" (in the technically curious sense) for so-called security reasons. They seem to me to be more a blanket for companies to be able to create and sell crap products. And since you can't test the stuff the consumer is stuck with it.


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