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Allow me to say that your answer seems particularly naive.

As another HNer has already commented, control of physical space trumps any hacker doing anything. Particularly true when you can't simply H-Bomb an enemy, or the entire world would rise against you.



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Unless said hacker has a big magnet.

Especially as a hacker

The more power to ya then :)

No disagreement here. hackers have made my world a much better place many times.


Why hacker?

Well I think hackers BREAK boundaries which is a little different.

As a hacker,

hackers rule!

I'd say that hackers helped win WWII. Jamming radar, breaking codes, etc.

Hackers are also Humans

I've never known a hacker who didn't like trains and escalators.

An aside: it's independent thought and experimentation like this makes hackers so important.

Because hackers might also care about the world around them, that's why.

HN hackers are known to be particularly modest.

> It's a lot harder to hack humans to do bad things

I'd say, it's probably easier to hack individual humans, but - like everything in computing - hacking algorithms scales well, while human factors generally don't.


Hackers can do it too.

Hackers are intimately familiar with the fallibity of technology. If hackers shun something, maybe it's because they have reason to.

care to elaborate? nothing is sacred to a hacker.

We have a chance at detecting purely electronic hackers also. For example, hackers made 574 attempts to connect to one of my servers as root since the logfiles were rotated.

This idea that physical is somehow categorically better than electronic is just magical thinking.


Because hackers are lazy. Some say all inventors are.
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