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Absolutely. The smartest hackers I know don't even have something as self-indulgent as a public web site. In my experience, hackers have always been the quiet
by irrelative 17y ago
Absolutely. The smartest hackers I know don't even have something as self-indulgent as a public web site.
In my experience, hackers have always been the quiet type. Now some loud ones have changed what it means to be a hacker through popularity.
- HalcyonMuse 17y agoOn the other hand, by dint of being so loud, they've given even the quiet hackers some well-deserved recognition. Intellectualism has too long been shunned in the main stream. It's finally become sort of (dare I say it?) cool to be a hacker. Thus, their volume has contributed some social capital to us.