Re: "First Mission" just finished...but "Hackers" will start soon...

[Mark Baker <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Janne Kemppi <jkemppi@ees2.oulu.fi> writes
>       As far as the hacker is concerend, I am thinking of moving
>       away from established cliche of late-teens nerd with cool 
>       name who runs after each skirt. I have been thiking of making
>       the hacker into real-life professional hacker: early-30's,
>       male, Computing M.Sc., several years as programmer in major
>       company at first followed by years as a computing consultant,
>       low morals enough to be beswaiged to use his skills for a job
>       with no questions asked. Works mostly legally but does extralegal
>       work now and then when the price is right.
>
Personally I think that's a wise idea. The hackers who tend to hang
around cyber-cafes boasting about their exploits while forging mail
headers for their spams are little more than script kiddies or aolamers.
Most of the serious hackers don't boast, rarely meet up with other
hackers (the exception being hacker conventions, and those guys are
fairly closely monitored), and if they work as part of a group they do
so virtually rather than ftf.