Archive for June 2011
Hackfites 11′
Not unlike hundreds of thousands of other people, news outlets, bloggers, and enthusiasts, I have been sucked in to the past few months of drama that is the hacker wars of the summer of 11. Whether it be Lulzsec bursting on to the scene with the hilarity of @topiary and his comical twitter posts, or the subsequent emergence of their detractors denouncing them as “skids” or blasting them for cheapening their “art form”, it has been a topic of increasing interest to the casual viewer and has introduced some of us to new terminology, new sites, and opened our eyes to what has become an entire scene that some of us were blissfully unaware of.
