You have to hate the media
What a social engineer, the leader of a warez group, a computer scientist who wrote one of the most well-known programming languages and a kid who accidentally writes a script that infects several computers have in common?
They are all called “hackers”.
I’m not kidding here. Twice this week I read some article about “most famous hackers” and the list have all those listed. It seems that they put the “bad guys” in front of the list, to give it a “those guys are bad” feeling about it.
One of the articles had Dennis Ritchie, the guy who designed the C programming language with Ken Thompson; the other had Richard Stallman, the father of the GNU organization and the free software movement. The rest of the guys? One guy who cracked a telephone company, the kid who wrote a computer virus and brought several *cough*windows*cough* machines down. Oh, and Kevin Mitnick.
