[deadly_syn]

I think you have a funny idea of what hacker culture is. In my personal opinion self identifying as anything online is kind of anti-thetical to privacy which again IMO is a core tenet of how a skilled "hacker" might operate. By bringing identity into the conversation you start getting distracted by whos ideas you hear and not the merit of the ideas alone.

There was never a compatibility issue with cointerculture and hacking because in all reality machines give 0 shits about who you are. its all syntax, and if you're technically correct thats all that matters!

They way you're looking at this is more inline with political rhetoric than a hacker my friend.

[bitwize]

Everything is political, my friend. Hacker culture was never apolitical, it lived off the fat of the military-industrial complex and was a product of the politics of its day.

Allison Parrish did a great job of deconstructing the idea of hacker culture as an idyllic metritocracy independent of politics or bias, exposing its more problematic elements, and proposing an alternative value system: http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting...

[deadly_syn]

I never said anything about politics though? You brought them up.

A makeshift culture built mainly around documents pilfered from dumosters and why not? Doesnt really sound like living off the fat of the mil-industry complex when that same institution was arresting and booking the protohackers without serious reason or cause.