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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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