
Remember, hacking is a fundamentally grass-roots activity, and it does not
happen on a large scale unless there is some kind of social drive to motivate
people into action.
A small part of the renewed social awareness in hardware hacking may be
due to the desire of young hackers to extend themselves and carve a new niche
for themselves.The software hacking world is now more structured, and new
hackers joining one of the major software hacking establishments feel more like
cogs rather than inspired inventors. Change and new ideas are not always so
welcome from so-called “n00bs,” and some budding hackers may be turned off
by the intense flame wars that ...