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Some parallels, Major differences. the Hacker mentality is something Ayn Rand would have never considered as incorruptible. Her view on white hats was never discussed even though she was around through it's birth and maturity. One of the great reinventions of the hacker community is 'you mess with me, me and my friends will screw you tenfold'. Selfgoverning society was often taken to it's basic animalistic extreme in Ayn Rand's perspectives, seeing it first hand would skew anyones faith in humanity. Hackers are more like mathematicians in not really caring about real-world applications of the knowledge sought, they are in it for the knowledge for knowledge sake.