Not everyone was Hacker Manifesto kind of hacker, majority of people were not - including those into open source. While Hacker Manifesto is attractive to some, it was also off-puting to others.
For one, these kind of people would hide `rm -rf` into advice to clueless newbie that just happened to be around. I have seen enough in this category to have no illusions about them being driven by curiosity. Basically, if I would be hanging around them and bad things happen to me, it would be my own fault cause I knew it may happen. For the other, I preferred less arrogant engineers to hang around.
I mean, they had no problem harming someone they don't know for their own fun, but oh my god someone else wants earn money by working. Nah, when they catch him hacking atm machine, they just hate him cause he outsmarted them. Nothing to do with missing money.
I know that FBI went overboard multiple times and is not exactly clean in its methods. I know that FBI attempted to criminalize stuff that should not be criminal. But hackers were not just curious innocent kids.
For one, these kind of people would hide `rm -rf` into advice to clueless newbie that just happened to be around. I have seen enough in this category to have no illusions about them being driven by curiosity. Basically, if I would be hanging around them and bad things happen to me, it would be my own fault cause I knew it may happen. For the other, I preferred less arrogant engineers to hang around.
I mean, they had no problem harming someone they don't know for their own fun, but oh my god someone else wants earn money by working. Nah, when they catch him hacking atm machine, they just hate him cause he outsmarted them. Nothing to do with missing money.
I know that FBI went overboard multiple times and is not exactly clean in its methods. I know that FBI attempted to criminalize stuff that should not be criminal. But hackers were not just curious innocent kids.