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P2 Generation Survey Site

By On February 12, 2012 · 14 Comments · In community, diybio, Ecosystem, Hackers, hackerspace, Hacktivism, network, open source, Participate, research, survey

The past ‘hackerspace’ surveys 2010 and 2011 have created a great data base for longitudinal study. Now that my funding for PhD survey is about to finish (after all it was just for one year), I’m considering to put my research efforts to this survey study. [...]

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Sociological view of hackers and hackerspaces.

By On November 17, 2009 · 11 Comments · In Black-hat hackers, Crackers, Grey-hat hackers, Hackers, hackerspace, White-hat hackers

In this post I will try to define hackerspaces by comparing them to traditional, larger hacker culture and community. The idea for this post came to my mind while writing the “Viewpoints to the development of Hackerspaces”. Every hacker group and other computer related groups or clubs can not be [...]

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Politically motivated hacker groups and coalitions.

By On November 13, 2009 · 8 Comments · In Hackers

Even though the amount of hacker groups is unknown some estimates exists. A security company (mi2g, which has been mocked by hackers and IT-specialists) has build a system that gathers among other things hacker activities from all over the world. They have estimated that 2004 there was 8500 hacker groups. This figure includes [...]

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Hacker ethic on the move.

By On November 11, 2009 · 6 Comments · In Black-hat hackers, Crackers, Grey-hat hackers, Hackers

The hacker ethic is not a stable object or entity. Instead it is constantly on the move, changing over time and new generations of hackers. Steven Mizrach, a well known anthropologist, has studied the changes in hacker ethic. In his study he analysed 28 writings about hacker ethic written by different hackers of [...]

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Original hacker ethic.

By On November 10, 2009 · 6 Comments · In Black-hat hackers, Crackers, Grey-hat hackers, Hackers, White-hat hackers

Hacker ethic is controversial topic. It promotes open-source development, which has been crucial in innovating and creating of at least one new operating system, leading http server software, several other server and desktop software. What also seems to be easy to see beneficial to all, is the normative rule to share knowledge. These [...]

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Hackers – pioneers of cyberspace

By On November 10, 2009 · 6 Comments · In Crackers, Hackers

Hackers “[...]are largely self-taught but also partly mentored in an informal but highly effective ‘share the knowledge’ tutoring arrangement.”(Mitnick & Simon 2005, 87.). The nature of hacker is to use inordinate amount of time to learn how computer systems, operating system software, application programs and networks function. The hackers are the true native habitants of [...]

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Definition of hacker in the old Millenium.

By On November 9, 2009 · 5 Comments · In Black-hat hackers, Crackers, Hackers, White-hat hackers, Yleinen

Steven Levy describes hacker as individual who has a low-level familiarity with the operation of technology and is capable of devising technically elegant software solutions.(Levy 1984, 12.) Hackers can operate either on global or global level. An example of global hacker operations is the case of Kevin Mitnick. At the local level hackers [...]

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