Fascinating history of a transformation in how hackers were seen. There's a fascinating new history, Wearing Many Hats: The Rise of the Professional Security Hacker by Matt Goerzen and Gabriella Coleman, which charts "the movements of the digital underground during the 1990s to reveal what underground technologists or “hackers”, did—technically, linguistically, and culturally—to establish their legitimacy as employable, trustworthy security experts."
Wearing Many Hats
Wearing Many Hats
Wearing Many Hats
Fascinating history of a transformation in how hackers were seen. There's a fascinating new history, Wearing Many Hats: The Rise of the Professional Security Hacker by Matt Goerzen and Gabriella Coleman, which charts "the movements of the digital underground during the 1990s to reveal what underground technologists or “hackers”, did—technically, linguistically, and culturally—to establish their legitimacy as employable, trustworthy security experts."