Hacklash?

Hacklash

Will the backlash from the Sony hacking and terror threats be that all hackers are North Korean Communist Terrorists?

Will a few bad apples ruin the bunch or were hackers always 'bad apples'?

Who would want to be associated with hackers after this?

This is too deep for me.

What I see is that little red button in the white house being installed by the POTUS's bed. One push no more interwebz easy peazy.

a reply to: CryHavoc

Who would want to be associated with hackers after this?

Probably the same people who today call themselves hackers when they use tools developed by others to perform so called hacks without truly understanding the underlying factors being used.

Hackers in the form that the general public thinks of them are for the most part silent about their moonlighting activities . The script kiddies are the ones that want the attention.

originally posted by: CryHavoc
Hacklash

Will the backlash from the Sony hacking and terror threats be that all hackers are North Korean Communist Terrorists?

They do seem like an easy scapegoat, could be

Will a few bad apples ruin the bunch or were hackers always 'bad apples'?

Neither, there are many different kinds of hackers, you couldn't ever paint them all with the same brush.

Who would want to be associated with hackers after this?

Every company that doesn't like to get hacked and other hackers probably.

edit on 18-12-2014 by Skaffa because: (no reason given)