[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.