Re:The Fall of Hacker Groups
by bhaak on Thursday December 11, 2014 @11:21AM
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> The only reason I've even heard of CCC and the like are because I was a huge nerd who read way too many hacker books as a kid.
That tells me that you are certainly not German and probably also not European.
Since the 80s the CCC was regularly in national German news as well as European. Some of the hacks made worldwide news, I guess (I'm thinking especially of the NASA-Hack and the GSM-Hack).
At least in Germany, one of the reasons we don't see other hacker groups appearing is that the various local CCC groups are the obvious place to go for people who would otherwise found own hacker groups.
That tells me that you are certainly not German and probably also not European.
Since the 80s the CCC was regularly in national German news as well as European. Some of the hacks made worldwide news, I guess (I'm thinking especially of the NASA-Hack and the GSM-Hack).
At least in Germany, one of the reasons we don't see other hacker groups appearing is that the various local CCC groups are the obvious place to go for people who would otherwise found own hacker groups.