Computer troublemakers

Usage examples of hackers.

Over the longer term, most hackers stumble, get busted, get betrayed, or simply give up.

The Hackers Conference, which had been started in 1984, was a yearly Californian meeting of digital pioneers and enthusiasts.

The hackers of the hackers Conference had little if anything to do with the hackers of the digital underground.

On the contrary, the hackers of this conference were mostly well-to-do Californian high-tech CEOs, consultants, journalists and entrepreneurs.

Point Foundation started its yearly Hackers Conference, and began to take an extensive interest in the strange new possibilities of digital counterculture.

The rhetoric of law enforcement made it clear that there was, in fact, a concerted crackdown on hackers in progress.

Magazine, for instance, held public meetings of hackers in New York, every month.

St Louis, and videotaped the frolicking hackers through a one-way mirror.

Document, lest it slip into the official court records, and thus into the hands of the general public, and, thus, somehow, to malicious hackers who might lethally abuse it.

There she discovered that these computer- intruding hackers, who had been characterized as unethical, irresponsible, and a serious danger to society, did in fact have their own subculture and their own rules.

For young hackers of the digital underground, meeting Dorothy Denning was a genuinely mind-boggling experience.

Here was this neatly coiffed, conservatively dressed, dainty little personage, who reminded most hackers of their moms or their aunts.

Confronted by this genuinely nice lady, most hackers sat up very straight and did their best to keep the anarchy- file stuff down to a faint whiff of brimstone.

Denning pointed out that the attitude of hackers were at least partially shared by forward-looking management theorists in the business community: people like Peter Drucker and Tom Peters.

Like all hackers, he prefers his involvements direct, personal, and hands-on.