A hacker is a person that enjoys gaining technical knowledge and understanding how things work. People who attack servers maliciously do not require hacker level knowledge at all. Hackers do not need to attack anything to prove what they are. That is all. Thanks to our false educational system and the media, that like to confuse by turning objective definitions upside-down, normal people begin to think hackers are criminals. The opposite is true. Hackers seek truth and they try to spread honest information. Why should anyone criminalize this scene, and who? The answer is, the government. It is easy to understand. Everywhere in the world, useless and libelous governments exist, and have to justify their existence. How can one justify a criminal, organization that tries to establish a monopoly of force? By creating threats. And hackers and "information warfare" make pretty good false threats.