Hackers are normal people who like to understand how things work by taking them apart. At this stage they may re-engineer them, leave them broken or rebuild them. Things – clocks, toys, cars, engines, websites, software, hardware.

From here, on the internet, we get into cyberspace (cue trumpets), where anonymity can cause moral decay, and they may go “black”, perhaps “grey or gray”, or stay pristine white. Black Hat Hackers are usually called Hackers, and this pisses off some hackers, who – see above.

Hackers are usually depicted wearing hoodies indoors in basement server rooms, with blue light and a haze of badguy cologne. Even the women. This is called “social conditioning”. It is bs.

In reality, hackers do not wear hoodies. Hackers are normal but smarter than average people. They are on Facebook, Gmail, Youtube, LinkedIn. Many work directly or indirectly for Uncle Sam’s multiple 3 letter agencies, spying on US Citizens. So we read about them in the media, get news reports on CNN and Fox about their activities.

Ok. When you read about Russia China Norks and Iran hacking the heroic homeland or its allies, know that you are not reading about CIA NSA FBI, MI5 MI6, France Australia Canada Germany Israel. Just fill in the gaps.

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