I think it is more a case of the public information security field moving from a small, highly technical niche of hackers (example list[1]) to a mainstream care

I think it is more a case of the public information security field moving from a small, highly technical niche of hackers (example list[1]) to a mainstream career path that openly trains and employs thousands of people that may not have a traditional “hacker mind-set”[2][3]. BIFF[4] is still remembered by many within the early niche group of hackers. It is likely that similar psychology has been driving the ridicule at hacker conferences in recent years towards mainstream reporting on “cyber” topics and use of buzz phases such as “Advanced Persistent Threat”. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk#Noteworthy_cypherpunks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk#Noteworthy_cypherpu... [2] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html [3] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/09/what_is_a_hacke.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/09/what_is_a_hac... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIFF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIFF