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Re:Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits by maratd on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @12:38PM (#8362432)
> the rebels and the intellectually vain are easily co-opted politically.

and

> The rise of libertarianism in geekdom seems to fall under the same dynamic.

I can agree to the first, the second can be simply attributed to an understanding of the first. It is unfortunate that you don't see the connection.

The corruption of traditional causes and activism is what leads people toward libertarianism.

Re:Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits by apetresc on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @12:41PM (#8362453)
Why do you say he can't see the connection? The sentence you quoted explicitly points it out.