[loydb]

My attitude (and that of most of my contemporaries) was that hacking government computers (in our own country at least) was a Damn Stupid idea.

A corporation will make an ROI decision about pursuing someone. Is it worth their time and money and hassle to pursue, or should they just change the admin password to something other than "secret123" and forget about it.

The government, on the other hand, has whole branches of people with nothing better to do than follow up on this kind of thing, and they aren't motivated by 'profit.'