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Outside of movies these antics were confined to a specific (wealthy, male, usually white) demographic, though. Likewise a lot of 80s movies happily depict "funn
by hnbad 4y ago
Outside of movies these antics were confined to a specific (wealthy, male, usually white) demographic, though. Likewise a lot of 80s movies happily depict "funny" antics that would even at the time have been considered sexual assault or rape if the perps weren't wealthy white college "boys".
Sure, culture has become more sensitive to these things overall and criminal prosecution of credit card fraud and computer crimes has become a lot more effective but there's a tangible difference between generating fake credit card numbers and masking your identity to defraud ISPs and hacking the Pentagon to access government secrets (namely, the latter fits into the hacker ethos of "liberating information" and rejecting authority whereas the former just provides personal gain). Changing your school records as a student is a childish version of the latter (as the intent is not to create false credentials for monetary gain but to defy the authority of teachers by subverting their means of "punishment").
- guerrilla 4y ago> Outside of movies these antics were confined to a specific (wealthy, male, usually white) demographic, though. Um no, definitely not. > Sure, culture has become more sensitive to these things overall Decades of fearmongering in media, omnipresent surveillance and the buying off of all competent hackers did a good job of that.
- kurisufag 4y ago>Outside of movies these antics were confined to a specific (wealthy, male, usually white) this could not possibly be further from the truth -- the early hacking/phreaking scene was quite possibly one of the most diverse in tech history, mostly because it was actually meritocratic even the population of kids that hung out on IRC during early web2.0 DDoSing each other and trading 0days had a disproportionate amount of minority individuals, and large portions of them graduated to today's cybsec industry
- yew 4y agoFandom types and 80s hackers have that in common - mostly white neckbeards roleplaying diversity and thinking it's for real. (Most of the people who called themselves "anarchists" back then too. Feels like political spaces have seen a bit more improvement though.)