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What does the age or casualness of the hacker have to do with anything?
by neolog 6y ago
What does the age or casualness of the hacker have to do with anything?
- guerrilla 6y agoIt has to do with how responsibility is percieved here. Different rhetoric will have different results for the same facts.
- runarberg 6y agoI guess the issue is with the word ‘hacker’. I guess using a more descriptive and accurate word like attacker, vandal, or terrorist is more apt here.
- jobigoud 6y agoAttacker and terrorist convey the same thing as hacker, that it was not negligence but a very motivated enemy. Vandal works better.
- runarberg 6y agoHacker is someone that finds a way to use a thing out side of the designed purpose. There is no value judgement in the word alone, and the word does not say whether the hacker is hacking with an intent to do harm. This is normally not how news media frames criminals, as they tend to use words which assign guild to the guilty, (like criminal, thieve, burglar, sexual predator, etc.). Attacker, vandal, and terrorist all do that, while hacker doesn’t.
- young_unixer 6y agoIt's an indicator for the level of incompetence of the hacked party.
- crystalmeph 6y agoIf the system is open to a l33t scr1pt k1dd13 who’s hacking knowledge consists of copy-pasting from 2600 articles, it speaks to a system that would stand no chance against a well-resourced adversary. This kind of thing may well be a new kind of front the next time we get into a shooting war “over there.”