> Seems like hackers of today have really let down the public.
I disagree. It seems like if anything, it's the public of today that has let down the hackers. In all honesty though, it's probably more just, "people gonna people."
You used to have to -want- to be a hacker, and connectivity much less the processing power to receive it was not guaranteed. I had to mow lawns to get a ride to the library to read dusty Bell UNIX surplus manuals. You were lucky to even meet someone other than Dewey D who knew the same words or the nature of what you were doing.
Consequently, when you met someone online, it didn't matter what kind of weirdo they were. You knew that when you were in certain spaces that anybody there had some special something and that kinship bridged all gaps and mismatches. Those friendships were forever and we didn't even know eachother's names or faces. That's not guaranteed now.
Now everyone has an apollo mission's worth of compute on their wrist/pocket and the swill is so sweet nobody's hungry. If you extrapolate the current situation to other events in history, we're headed for danger and that's a good thing, we need that struggle.
"Crises precipitate change", Deltron3030 was right.
p.s. don't say 'mainframe' say 'cloud', you're all set.
I disagree. It seems like if anything, it's the public of today that has let down the hackers. In all honesty though, it's probably more just, "people gonna people."