‘We Got to Be Cool About This‘: An Oral History of the LØpht, Part 1

Re:‘We Got to Be Cool About This‘: An Oral History of the LØ... by dec0dedab0de on Thursday May 24, 2018 @12:44PM (#17145794)

I understand that now, but when I was 14 in 1996 it seemed like I was reading about some forbidden secret magic. Now it just feels like a different career path. I'm sure a good part of that change is me getting older, and knowing more. Though I think that the rising level of professionalism in computer security has robbed it of it's mystique. I think this is a good thing overall, but nostalgia and what not.

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Re:‘We Got to Be Cool About This‘: An Oral History of the LØ... by georgemcbay on Thursday May 24, 2018 @02:26PM (#17146851)

> I think that the rising level of professionalism in computer security has robbed it of it's mystique

It has, though basically every one of the now-respectable-looking professional security outfits you could point to has one or more of these late 80s early 90s "mystique era" hackers working for it (and I can probably tell you what their old bbs handle and/or irc nick was).

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Re:‘We Got to Be Cool About This‘: An Oral History of the LØ... by tptacek on Thursday May 24, 2018 @02:49PM (#17147070)

That's a good thing; our field could use a lot more computer science and a lot less mystique.

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