I totally agree with you. The ethos went "mainstream" in the sense that it was fashionable to play the part and be in your words a "fake hacker". And for futur

I totally agree with you. The ethos went "mainstream" in the sense that it was fashionable to play the part and be in your words a "fake hacker". And for future historians and those unfamiliar with the jargon, hacker ethos isn't about criminally breaking into computer systems.