I understand the "old days" idealism of hacking things in the 80s, but there weren't million computer botnets conducting massive criminal attacks on banks and g

I understand the "old days" idealism of hacking things in the 80s, but there weren't million computer botnets conducting massive criminal attacks on banks and governments in the 80s. It's a different era. It's like saying "quarantine is pointless in my rural village of 29 people, so therefore it's also pointless in my city of nine million"