[xtracto]

What does it mean to be a "reformed hacker" anyway?

Does it mean that he does not black-hat hack anymore? Or that he does not "hack"?

How do we know he does not "hack"? maybe he doesn't do it publicly but he still "hacks" to his OSX/Linux box.

[RuadhanMc]

Well in the 80's and 90's when Assange did the illegal hacking, that we're aware of, hackers weren't what we call hackers today.

So a reformed hacker in my books is someone who no longer illegally hacks into property that is not theirs.

In "Hacker News" existed a decade+ ago then it would have been filled with black-hats.

[indrax]

Hack is orthogonal to legal. Hack is orthogonal to personal gain.