A simple and compact definition is still missing even among the persons who a involved in Hackerspaces. Yet some discussion about this has occured among the participants. I participate in the discussion list of hackerspaces since I’m a founder and member of our local Hackerspace (5w) in Tampere, Finland. [...]
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 [...]
