LLCU 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Subculture, Grey Hat, Cyberwarfare
8 Feb 2018
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Negative connotation, sense of illegality to the term. Was not about the result, it was about the nature of the solution. Aesthetic to the code that was important. End of 19602: set of universal platform languages that emerge and people are sharing a lot more. Inquiry: trying to find an interesting solution to a problem. Openness: important in hacking culture, sharing information and avoiding secrecy. Variation: create a variant of a code base by forking that code base (build on what other people are doing) No authority: inherent dislike of any kind of authority. People shouldn"t make decisions for other people. Cleverness: valorization of hacking as being clever. Cracker culture: breaking in to the culture. Main character is at a computer and says that he was doing a bit of hacking. Hacking as a term had no positive or negative connotation at this time, only hackers used this language. Portrayal of hacking as less morally correct.
