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I feel like a better distinction would be academic hacking and counterculture hacking. One is founded in clever solutions/information-related ideology from an
by Palomides 10y ago
I feel like a better distinction would be academic hacking and counterculture hacking. One is founded in clever solutions/information-related ideology from an academic context, and the other in subversion from an outsider context (and of course there could be overlap). Of course a CEO could be a hacker in one of those senses.
- ktRolster 10y agook, so your comment made me think. It seems like there are (vaguely) two types of black-hat hackers. The older type (legions of doom, captain crunch, etc), are just trying to get information, understand how things work, and don't particularly want to subvert anything. In the last decade or so, we've seen the rise of groups like Anonymous, who are hacktivists....meaning they kind of do have a goal of actually subverting things.
- daveloyall 10y agoThe older type was before my time. But here's my thinking... You can't really know how something works without also being able to make it do something that wasn't intended. I feel counter-culture and a little bit punk every time I fix something instead of buying a new one. I feel a little MORE CC and punk if I do it with bailing wire and pliers from my back pocket, on the spot, in front of people. Hacking is counter-culture because culture is lame and hacking is awesome. You can't --and I mean, logically-- you can't be good at things without finding yourself going against the flow. Because being independently strong is just not where the flow is pointed.
- Gargoyle 10y agoFor the older type (sigh), the act of getting information was subversive.