Just a couple of observations: * CCC[1] was not a 'crew'. The CCC IMHO has still a big impact, mostly due to the (extremely?) high technical skill-set of its m

Just a couple of observations: * CCC[1] was not a 'crew'. The CCC IMHO has still a big impact, mostly due to the (extremely?) high technical skill-set of its members. * The OP writes about cultural impact NOT mainstream attention. In order to get mainstream attention you have to do something trivial like DDOS Yahoo! which was way below the average technical ability of these 'crews' to cause havoc (if they'd like to do so) back in the day. [1] http://www.ccc.de/en/ http://www.ccc.de/en/