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A comment on Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group. Parent comment

Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group by js2 on Friday March 15, 2019 @07:15PM (#19405212)
> Society glamorizes hackers hard.

Hollywood glamorizes hackers, like violence, crime, rock n roll, space travel, and just about everything else hard.

At the risk of hyperbole, if society glamorized hackers hard, Aaron Swartz might still be with us.

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Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group by barbecue_sauce on Saturday March 16, 2019 @04:09PM (#19409939)
This was what I was going to say. I'm not sure society itself has internalized Hollywood's glamorization of hackers, and the glamorization is more a product of trying to make something mundane seem more interesting in the context of a film.
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