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Definitely organize crime is just another business. We have this idea that hackers tend to be loose knit groups of people with more moral objectives. While th
by edgyquant 5y ago
Definitely organize crime is just another business. We have this idea that hackers tend to be loose knit groups of people with more moral objectives. While that may have been true twenty years ago like all criminal markets eventually that stopped being the case.
- indigochill 5y agoI don't at all believe it's stopped being the case. The demographics of the hacker community have certainly changed, with a higher degree of polarization between corporate/fed white hats (e.g. people like Mudge) and criminal black hats, but you still have some grey hat vigilantes in the middle like Janit0r, who wrote BrickerBot that went around bricking open IoT devices so that they wouldn't fall prey to Mirai.
- watwut 5y agoIt was never like that. If you look at those peoples actions, high moral objective was super rare thing. Case in point: I remember people glorifying veev making him sound like good guy and making his detractors sound like liers. Turned out differently.