This is the perfect example of the consequences a "black hat" hacker faces. Since they are hacking with malicious intent, they are exploiting sensitive information, resulting in there being consequences. Mitnick was always one step ahead of the FBI, but after being caught, he is now facing serious jail time for all the malicious things he did.

I like how the author addresses hackers' stereotypes. Many people view hackers as "dark room dwellers" who sit in their basement and hack others. Others view them as the socially awkward computer genius. Therefore, I think it was powerful that the author portrayed him as your everyday guy.

It's cool seeing all the steps the FBI agents and Shimomura take when trying to arrest Mitnick. I like how they highlight surveilling the hacker as they track his digital footprint and monitor his communication methods.

This highlights how the programmers put a ton of effort into ensuring the software is working correctly. Therefore, jumping to conclusions about finding a bug can come off as offense since it seems like you're questioning the programmers tech abilities. It's essential that your communication skills are sensitive and mindful when reporting a bug since you don't want the programmers to feel like you're attacking their skills.

The author states that they'll cut some slack if they suspect a language barrier, but there's no tolerance if someone is putting in no effort and being lazy. This indicates that they value effort and hard work.

The author states how hackers have a reputation of being arrogant. However, he argues that the hostility is not directed towards the people, it's directed people's unwillingness to put effort into critical thinking or researching their own questions. Ultimately, hackers are very self-sufficient and become annoyed when others don't take initiative themselves.

This highlights how hackers contemplate if their hacking qualifies for public interest. Phineas Phisher wanted to share his hacking skills as a manual to the hacking community. This allows hacking strategies to be replicated and built on, enhancing hacking. This indicates to the public that hacking should be more normalized and be seen for its skill and craft rather than being associated with negativity.

Hackers want to see how far their hacking can take them. They try experimenting to see if they can identify more & more vulnerabilities in security systems. I feel like they enjoy exposing corporations because releasing information to the public serves as a reward for all their hard hacking work.

I believe some forms of hacking are bad but hacktivists are exposing people/company's that are doing unethical things to begin with. They are doing this with the purpose of being transparent with the public and highlighting things that could have public repercussions. I side with the hacktivists because if you don't want to get caught, you shouldn't be doing something wrong in the first place.

This is a prime example about how not all hacking is bad. This government agency found out that Enron was doing unethical things like fraud. They decided to hack and expose the emails to show public transparency. Hacking allowed this company to become exposed for creating & profiting off of power shortages which is completely unethical.