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To be fair, he may not be sitting around running port scanners and wardialers anymore, but I'd hardly call him reformed.

• xtracto 15y ago
  What does it mean to be a "reformed hacker" anyway? Does it mean that he does not black-hat hack anymore? Or that he does not "hack"? How do we know he does not "hack"? maybe he doesn't do it publicly but he still "hacks" to his OSX/Linux box.
  • RuadhanMc 15y ago
    Well in the 80's and 90's when Assange did the illegal hacking, that we're aware of, hackers weren't what we call hackers today. So a reformed hacker in my books is someone who no longer illegally hacks into property that is not theirs. In "Hacker News" existed a decade+ ago then it would have been filled with black-hats.
    • indrax 15y ago
      Hack is orthogonal to legal. Hack is orthogonal to personal gain.