The old narrative of vigilante justice in the hacker set is getting repetitive. I wish reports weren't so biased to use 'hacker' in their stories because it for

The old narrative of vigilante justice in the hacker set is getting repetitive. I wish reports weren't so biased to use 'hacker' in their stories because it forever connotes hack with something unsavoury. This is an infosec breach, not a hack. The 'Impact Team' even said they did not have to try that hard. Any good hack has hack value, and the only reason AM was booted offline was because it happened on their clock, and not the clock of any other {random} internet database. This could have been any site. Also I wrote this small piece on hackerdom and what paths we can take if we are inclined to hack: http://blog.higg.im/2015/05/27/hacker-with-lots-of-free-time-what-are-you-doing-about-that/ http://blog.higg.im/2015/05/27/hacker-with-lots-of-free-time...