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I'd actually leave the US. When I think of hackers, I think of black hats like I once was, and most tech people know that knowledge is power, I think that hack
by quackerhacker 13y ago
I'd actually leave the US.
When I think of hackers, I think of black hats like I once was, and most tech people know that knowledge is power, I think that hackers may justify what the NSA is doing and may take it further. (ex. how far do you track the ip's and associate them with users on a website)
Truth is though, with our generation being technically minded, it's inevitable that some of us will become the people in the background that fund political campaigns. Politicians are just front men with IOU's behind them.
- krapp 13y agoHackers built that program and hackers are running it, and hackers are responsible for the pervasive social media/analytics infrastructure that made it possible. Hackers have an ethos but like anyone else, they can put it aside when money, power or principle suits them.
- quackerhacker 13y agoOf course coders built the programs and networks that made up PRISM, but do you think the PM's and lobbyists that approved the programs were technically minded. The coders just did what they were hired to do. My take is that the PRISM program could have started as a foreign intelligence program, but was adapted to a domestic one as well. I as a coder who has built web analytic tools before, how do you differentiate from a foreign user or a domestic one? Just because an IP or mac address is located in the US, it doesn't mean the end user is in the US or it's not spoofed. Our future is not too far fetched than Eagle Eye or Minority Report.