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Skyper

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
197 total appearances

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Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

many, many, many companies entered the community and started to sell cybersecurity technology.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

And hackers would start working for these companies and they would sell the secrets that they did not research and did not discover, but that were given to them by the community.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

And they were making lots of money from it.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

And the community was not very happy about that because effectively these people stole from the community.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

emerged called the anti-security movement, which basically said, well, that's not okay.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

And out of that, the PHC materialized and they were probably, let's call them the radical form of anti-security movement.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

They would do a witch hunt and they would try to hunt down every hacker who would work for corporate.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

I call it hacker cannibalism, where hackers ate other hackers and destroyed other hackers.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

often unfairly and unjustified.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

It was really a witch hunt.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

And that went on for some time, and PhDs then tried to take over FRAC because they were not happy with the editorial staff who was running FRAC.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

Of course, they tried to hack into the servers and things that you would do, but they also tried to steal articles or send out, call for papers and pretending that they were FRAC, but they never owned the domain.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

Yeah, they wanted to keep all the secrets among themselves so that only they can use them.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

And it's also counterproductive.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

In an intellectual society, you need to share your ideas to inspire other people.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

And for other people also to verify your ideas and to take your ideas further to the next step.

Darknet Diaries
170: Phrack

Otherwise, it's a stagnation and you won't go anywhere.