My impression was that the implications of sexism were directed at Levy, for glorifying the hackers who made Hamilton's work more difficult while trivializing h

My impression was that the implications of sexism were directed at Levy, for glorifying the hackers who made Hamilton's work more difficult while trivializing her work to some degree, not so much at the hackers themselves, who indeed just broke something because they had an incomplete understanding of the system they were working on.