The text wich follows is a possible interview with an hacker, a diffrent way of building a FAQ about hacking. U won't find anything technical, the questions and the answers below show my points of view about hacking philosofy. I'll update ti everytime I'll receive new Qs or when I think I have something else to say.
Have a good time reading Maddler's Cyberpunk FAQ.

Q: Criminalized, labeled as antisocial, marked as "bad sectors" in nowadays' life "file system". Hackers, pirates, illegal users, ppl call us in many diff ways but they mean always the same things: "they have to be fought, isolated, closed in jail!". Reasons for that?

A: Many, too many, maybe.
1st of all they know we can fight using their same weapons, on their same ground and, most probably, using tech much better that what they can. The truth is that who made "the Net" possible, who right now makes the Net working, those who knows how things really work, all those ppl are hackers.

Q: What do you think a Hacker is?

A: Despite of what big media say, hackers are not just antisocial-bored-teens sitting in front of their 2000$ computers tryin' to break in gov's ultrasecured systems.
Hackers have no age, all around the world, they have friends and they have a "normal"(?) social life. The only, the main, difference among a hacker and a "standard" PC  user is that the Hacker knows what he can obtain using a computer and he knows hot to achieve that.
I also think there are more "Hackers" among ppl who don't call themselves hackers than among those say "yes, I'm a Hacker". I met many ppl claiming they were hackers, but they don't even know what freedom of information was, they didn't share their knowledge. Maybe thery are good crackers, great coders, great teachies, maybe. But they for sure are not hackers! Hacker is Try to go around in plces like Hip97, and u'll find peoples helping each other and showing what they know to other.
There you could understand that there are different ways of being a Hacker. Like in a Liberation Army, u'll find ppl having differnt weapons and knowledge. U'll meet coders, phreakers, highly specialzed techies and couriers, they all know that each other work is necessary to win.

Q: Why do you think a Hacker would spend hours, days, trying to force a bank security system ot to hack CIA's web site?

A: I think it doesn't make any difference if a system is owned by a private, a bank, or by the gov, the CIA's site. What u have is a Hacker and a security system. That's just a chess match, two players playing their own tactics, the hacker wnats to show he is the best, he wants to show that there isn't any secure system, not so secure as it is claimed to be. It's true, Hackers hacked security systems since the beginning, but just to show how weak those procedures are. But remember I'm talking about Hackers, not thieves using computer to steal money, or informations to be resold.
A hacker will just spread the informations he obtained, this ways as many other users as possible can have access to knolwdge otherwise owned by a few.

Q: Don't u think spreading informations this way can be dangerous?

A: I'll answer with another question: Don't u think that having knowledge owned by a very small group of people could be dangerous too?