If you ask me.. Thanks for asking.
This is a direct result from people feeling comfortable with technology and encouraged to explore it.
The human body, can be hacked, landscaper hack your gardens so they look beautiful. It is the fear that drives this negative ideal. My brother was saying that there is a developing system w/ Kazaa and Morpheus to dump massive amounts of incomplete files on the network, thus slowing them down.
Re: destroying computers..
If you have local access to a machine, you have FULL access to it, their is no question about that.
Remote is something totally different though, a discussion of ports, services, mediums of communication are brought up.
Seph and Zone, however have much more experience and said it much better than I..
Oh well...