As everyone under 40 in infosec tires of the “Hackers” aesthetic plastered on everything by us tedious elder millennials, one thing that I think gets lost, particularly for younger folks, is that the movie isn’t just goofy camp. I mean, obviously, it’s heavily fictionalized, but there really *was* a hacking subculture kind of like the one depicted in it in New York in the 1990s. I barely grazed the outer periphery of it myself, and I sometimes wonder if anyone did a serious ethnography of it.
@glyph there are two kinds of people in infosec: those who embrace the “Hackers” aesthetic, and those who can get off my lawn.
@jimfl I feel like this encapsulates the sentiment behind one of my best tweets ever https://twitter.com/glyph/status/1386416001969840132