Main Points
- With the rise of “networks” came people who could get “unauthorized” access to those networks. e.g., “Phone hackers.”
- Hacker culture, however, is broader than that. I would define it as using technological knowledge computers, and particularly computer networks, in ways outside of the law or everyday morality.
- Spafford a bit weak on ethics—but discusses the rationales from an ethical point of view, so I thought it would be helpful.
- Justifications for Hacking and Spafford's responses.
- Information wants to be free
- Spafford notes the drawbacks to open information, but fails to mention the drawbacks to secrecy and proprietary information.
