Jack Rhysider

But they are both passionate about it.

One tries to do it in the light.

One wants to do it in the shadows.

But they both like sharing what they know.

What's the difference, honestly?

Attitude?

Style?

But as computers grew more mainstream, becoming more common in every house, more interest grew in hacking.

I mean, I'm sure you've gotten some kind of new electronic at some point in your life, and you sat down and you said to yourself, what are all the cool things that this thing can do?

So imagine getting a computer and learning that it can print stuff and play games and make sounds, but then also hearing about some of the secret stuff it can do, like hack other people's computers.

So more people got fascinated with hacking and were contributing to things like Frac, submitting articles on how to do cool secret stuff on your computer.

But also, along with the rise of computers, the cybersecurity profession became popular, which sort of brought in a whole new culture of hackers.

These weren't the rollerblading cargo pants wearing mohawk kids.

The cybersecurity professional wears a collared shirt and sometimes a tie.

You can see this dark contrast of these two cultures when you go to conferences like Black Hat and DEFCON.

At Black Hat, you see people wearing suits and ties.

They say they're geeks and nerds, but they don't look it.

At DEFCON, there's a lot of people wearing cargo shorts, black shirts, hoodies, having mohawks.

At Black Hat, I feel like those people have to be there for work.

But at DEFCON, I feel like those people want to be there for the fun.