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It's interesting to contrast what YCombinator/Facebook mean by "hacker" and what it means at DEFCON. Or when this document was written. The former definitely ha
by Kalium 10y ago
It's interesting to contrast what YCombinator/Facebook mean by "hacker" and what it means at DEFCON. Or when this document was written. The former definitely has strong commercial overtones and the latter strong subversive overtones. They really are two very different meanings.
- RRRA 10y agoAnd to a lot of people here thinking this mentality is dead are, I think, confused by the fact that the growth and general appeal of computers have only diluted the hackers, but they are still growing in absolute numbers. Same goes at DEFCON in a way, where so many people want to see what a hacker is that the whole conference looses its "direction" in a way, as a whole at least...
- Kalium 10y agoVery true. When you define "hacker" to mean "A person who writes code quickly and is willing to take business risk", you're not likely to run in the same circles as the people who crack open complex software systems for fun. You might wind up believing those people no longer really exist, having gone the way of the dial-up modem.