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> Society glamorizes hackers hard. Hollywood glamorizes hackers, like violence, crime, rock n roll, space travel, and just about everything else hard. At the
by js2 8y ago
> Society glamorizes hackers hard.
Hollywood glamorizes hackers, like violence, crime, rock n roll, space travel, and just about everything else hard.
At the risk of hyperbole, if society glamorized hackers hard, Aaron Swartz might still be with us.
- barbecue_sauce 8y agoThis was what I was going to say. I'm not sure society itself has internalized Hollywood's glamorization of hackers, and the glamorization is more a product of trying to make something mundane seem more interesting in the context of a film.