Today I founda post from the hacker magazine 2600 stating their thoughts on Wikileaks and Operation Payback. Good stuff, great read.
http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/12037
The article puts a few things in proper perspective, hackers as a community are being collapsed in this discourse, so we can find stories of hackers assaulting Visa and Mastercard websites, as well as the Wikileaks site. There is no differentiation made by the media, cyber- attacks are "always caused by hackers". This type of discourse ignores the corporate and governmental interest and use of cyber-warfare. Those folk aren't hackers but have job titles, like Network Security Consultant, that mask the duties, even though there are many folk employed to both defend from cyber-attacks as well as engineer them to mess with competitors.
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