- The Greatest Hacker T-Shirts This Planet Has Ever Seen, Wired Enterprise at Wired.com
- How to destroy a brand-new Samsung laptop: Boot Linux on it, The Register
- Hacking Is Good for Democracy, Wired Opinion at Wired.com
- French National Library Privatizes Public Domain Materials, Techdirt
- Quantum crypto still not proven, claim Cambridge experts, The Register
- Boilerplate App kickstarts Firefox OS development, The H Open: News and Features
- Spintronics Used To Create 3D Microchip, Slashdot
- Dial-up handshaking illustrated, Boing Boing
Call me stupid, unfamiliar with technology, out of touch — or whatever; but the word “hacker”, and white-hat’s in particular will never take ownership of the infamous word without first somehow distancing themselves from the actions of Anonymous and other more nefarious “hacking” activity.
Matter of fact, white-hats not only turn a blind eye towards such nefarious activity that is seen a supportive of the cause, they also attempt to frame such black-hatting as a base for wider political gain; based on my own discussions with peers, those facts don’t sit well.
Speaking frankly I don’t think the connotation will ever truly go away unless the hacker community in general has some sort of reckoning with the greater public. How that might happen or what for it might take is cause for speculation.