[Noisebridge-discuss] [drama] My Hair Is On Fire - Current events that are shaping your rights as we speak

[Jacob Appelbaum]

On 03/16/2011 03:20 PM, Evan Bangham wrote:
> So very true that the word has already been co-opted, from the likes of
> Captain Crunch and all the original phreakers and hackers. This being the
> case, the people who co-opted the term (those creating the systems being
> broken into) shared the many of the same skills and worked in the same area
> as the original hackers and phreakers. The point I'm trying to raise is that
> not anyone can just throw the word around or call themselves a hacker.
> Political activists may share some of the same skills and ideals as hackers,
> but don't work within the same fields and are therefore overreaching if they
> are describing themselves as hackers.
> 

So you get to co-opt the word and that's the end of it? Nicely done!

Perhaps the ethic or spirit of hacking is the most important shared
skill and not the specific technological application?

If you don't believe that political activists may be hackers, I guess
you've missed the last few years of politics. :-)

Hack on stone cutters,
Jake