It sounds like a wild time, but then it got taken over by professional criminals and script-kiddies. What went wrong?
>>52073485
So too long in your moms basment leads to no social skills dumbass ..Go to reddit they will love you
It's gone.
>>52073485
The hacking scene died by less hackable environments built by the old time "hackers"
it was a meme like everything else
ask 2600 how to build a redbox ( top kek )
>>52073485
because they changed the laws. There weren't that much in terms of laws back then, and a lot of people in charge of computer systems recognized the abilities of hackers and wanted to use them to better their companies against more malicious ones. Now they dont care as much, they use the law to it's furthest extent to get them in jail and just hope they can figure out what happened and fix it so it doesn't happen next time instead of actually doing proper improvements, they're just putting bandaids over problems.
Retarded programmers started using the term hacker to describe themselves. The Hacker News helped fuck this up.
Anonymous fucked up the meaning of a hacker. Now tons of people think if you know how to use a denial of service attack, you are immediately a hacker.
Real blackhat hackers still exist but you will never hear of them, they don't post on twitter to brag about their hacks unless they are security researchers.
Hardware hacking is at an all-time-low and the only people still interested in it are the same people who were interested in it 8 years ago.
I think it's best to move away from the term hacker.
>>52073583
this
>>52073856
Physical hardware hacking seems like the most interesting branch of the field, though. Dudes using exotic solvents to carefully dismantle electronic components, etc.
But how would a newcomer even get into that sort of thing? The level of education you'd need to be proficient at all is quite high.
>>52073485
that story is fake
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/journalist-who-made-up-hack-heaven-story-barred-from-legal-profession/
>>52074465
ALLEGEDLY fake. We have no idea what kind of pressure Stephen Glass faced to "retract" his articles, or who was doing the pressuring...
>>52073856
I think you mistook cracker with hacker. Open a book next time.
>tfw you always thought being a hacker was cool
>tfw you don't even know basic computer programming beyond html and a few things in command prompt
