Conscience of a hacker

So I read this story that talk about how being a hacker is bad. It make you a criminal but in the story its a young boy that is curious to uncover the secret that this world hide. Why because the thing that the teaches you is the same thing over and over again well you get bored and you want to try something new find something that's worth wasting your time in life. But at the same time I never knew that finding something to occupy you self such as finding the truth to your question can get you arrested and put in jail. Since when was finding a j.g e truth to you question illegal. Sometime you have look at it from a different view and experience it your self and then you can judge it. But getting arrested for finding and spreading the truth to every on is illegall then I ask myself what is America hiding from us. I don't know they maybe found the cure for cancer and it only for the rich who knows I'll let you be the judge of that