> The hacker spirit is the fun of reverse engineering. The hacker spirit is about personal use. „We make use of a service already existing without paying for w

> The hacker spirit is the fun of reverse engineering. The hacker spirit is about personal use. „We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals.” I believe that if you want to see hackers as only kids doing „fun stuff” at their desk at night making their (metaphorical and not) parents angry then either you are missing the bigger picture, or capitalism has gotten their ideological claws on the hacker culture and turned it into an obedient bunch of techbros that wouldn’t even dream of making the information free, as it wants to be.