Re:The Fall of Hacker Groups
by tptacek on Thursday December 11, 2014 @11:28AM
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40hex was a zine; you might mean Phalcon/Skism.
NewHackCity was about as much a "group" as the cDc "NSF" was: it was a bunch of people who happened to hang out together (or, in NHC's case, live together). I suppose NHC got to look more like a group when they all left the east coast and set up a hackerspace.
I guess my point is: if you pick apart just the Boston scene, yes, it's going to look like everyone's interrelated. But that scene has, for instance, little to nothing in common with LoD (a bona fide "competitive" hacking group) or Haggis or whatever.
NewHackCity was about as much a "group" as the cDc "NSF" was: it was a bunch of people who happened to hang out together (or, in NHC's case, live together). I suppose NHC got to look more like a group when they all left the east coast and set up a hackerspace.
I guess my point is: if you pick apart just the Boston scene, yes, it's going to look like everyone's interrelated. But that scene has, for instance, little to nothing in common with LoD (a bona fide "competitive" hacking group) or Haggis or whatever.