Re:The Fall of Hacker Groups
by anigbrowl on Thursday December 11, 2014 @03:34PM
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Hard formatting for 80 character terminals is just annoying because the computing world has moved on to working in paragraphs. If you want to draw boxes then do it properly instead of wasting time doing it in ASCII.
Computer networks increasingly made it possible to transmit unlimited and
uncensored information across their geographical extent with little effort,
with little costs, and in virtually no time. From the communication
development standpoint, one would expect that the events that followed the
80s to our days would lead to a geometric progression in the number of
hacker communities. In effect, hacking has arguably grown. Hacker
communities, definitely not. So what went wrong?
The answer is in the first sentence. It's so easy to get information now that you can do it alone in many cases. You don't need a secret society of hackers to curate and distribute it once you have developed good search engine and research skills (which many younger hackers learn in school). Also, if you're in a tech hotspot or even a major metro, it's easy to meet up with other people for casual hackathons, and there are conferences for everything. things like Defcon are large commercial enterprises these days. I bet within 5 years there'll be a 'leakyworld' for people who follow Wikileaks. It's easy to join or abandon forums, whether on the open web or on the deep web via Tor (which feels a lot like the early days of the WWW to me).
Computer networks increasingly made it possible to transmit unlimited and uncensored information across their geographical extent with little effort, with little costs, and in virtually no time. From the communication development standpoint, one would expect that the events that followed the 80s to our days would lead to a geometric progression in the number of hacker communities. In effect, hacking has arguably grown. Hacker communities, definitely not. So what went wrong?
The answer is in the first sentence. It's so easy to get information now that you can do it alone in many cases. You don't need a secret society of hackers to curate and distribute it once you have developed good search engine and research skills (which many younger hackers learn in school). Also, if you're in a tech hotspot or even a major metro, it's easy to meet up with other people for casual hackathons, and there are conferences for everything. things like Defcon are large commercial enterprises these days. I bet within 5 years there'll be a 'leakyworld' for people who follow Wikileaks. It's easy to join or abandon forums, whether on the open web or on the deep web via Tor (which feels a lot like the early days of the WWW to me).