RE: The home user problem returns

["Paul Melson" <pmelson () gmail com>]

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Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] The home user problem returns

> I came up with a really cool mental hack the other day on this topic, but
I haven't 
> figured out how best to approach it. But, basically, it's the observation
that people 
> _HATE_ spammers and _HATE_ spam. Yet, people seem to _LOVE_ hackers and
think hacking 
> is _COOL_. How did this happen??

The hacker stereotype is mythology based largely in 20 years of media and
entertainment hype.  Face it, War Games was a sweet movie.  Fictional, but
sweet.  You can demystify individual hackers on an individual basis, but
cultural paradigms like this won't just change overnight, especially not
when there is a symbiotic relationship between journalists and hackers or
"security researchers" who stand to make real money selling fake accounts of
whitehat/blackhat/duncecap exploits (and 'sploits).

PaulM


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