It has long been held that, in terms of a threat to IT systems, the protagonist would be an individual, skilled and knowledgeable, but at odds with the society surrounding them: typically, a college-educated, twenty-something male who found the challenge of . . .
It has long been held that, in terms of a threat to IT systems, the protagonist would be an individual, skilled and knowledgeable, but at odds with the society surrounding them: typically, a college-educated, twenty-something male who found the challenge of accessing otherwise secure IT networks motivation enough. To complete the stereotype, these young, alienated `hackers' would invariably be complemented by less opportunistic and more idealistic computer experts, whose disruptive tendencies were but an expression of the computer users' commitment to the freedoms of information and speech.

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