computer hacking

What is hacking?
The act of remotely accessing someone's computer to steal their private files would be hacking. Note the words "steal their private files", what if that conditions was removed? Or what if you are simply accessing your own computer or that of a friend's to help him/her out?
Like the driver of a car would be called a driver, whether it is done by someone with the car owner's permission, by the car owner himself/herself or without the car owner's permission. Driving is driving regardless of the ethics, the context is irrelevant. Similarly a person is a hacker whether they are bypassing their own computer's security to access their own files, or doing it on someone Else's computer without the permission of the owner.
A person hacking into a computer to test its security is a hacker who is a security expert, a person hacking into a computer to steal passwords is a criminal. Here the context decides the legality and ethics of the act, and the person is accordingly labelled a "security experts" or "criminal", but he is a hacker nonetheless.
Hacking is an expression of our own curiosity, "how does it work?", "why can't i access it?",
"what happens if i give 400 volts instead 220?" It is simply the result of our drive to understand the things around us.Often people are curious about things which may cause them or others harm, such as child curious about an electricity socket, or an teen curious about drugs. A computer hacker is one who is curious about the working of computers and software. While many people are happy treating their computer like a black box, where they merely feed in data and get in return, others strive to break in and understand how it works, and why it works that way often, instead simply accepting things the way they are, they will look for ways to make things work the way they want. While this may be considered juvenile, hacking into someone's computer as you are responsible enough to respect their privacy.