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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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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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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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