Wall
David Wall defines this term as the deliberate exploitation of public fear of hackers for entertainment purposes
What is haxploitation?
Because hackers are highly rational actors, Bachmann argues that the most effective deterrent is increasing the certainty of these two legal outcomes.
What are detection and prosecution (or punishment)?
Borrowed from positive psychology, this state involves intense concentration where a hacker loses self-consciousness, time is distorted, and the work becomes its own reward.
What is a flow state (or flow)?
This four-letter acronym is a common response in hacker repositories when a "newbie" asks a question that could be answered by consulting the technical documentation.
What is RTFM (Read The F***ing Manual)?
This literary genre provided the "social blueprint" for the hacker stereotype, portraying them as marginalized, alienated loners in dystopic futures
What is cyberpunk
According to Bachmann, this personality trait is the strongest predictor of hacking success, as it leads to better preparation and reconnaissance.
What is rationality (or analytical-rational thinking style)?
This "punny" term is used by Steinmetz to define hacking as both a skill-based productive activity and a guileful, subversive behavior
What is craft(y)ness?
Hackers often enter this psychological state of "intense and focused concentration" where their sense of time is distorted and the activity becomes intrinsically rewarding
What is fiero?
Media and news production cycles often turn minor cyber events into these, which disrupt the social order and have a disproportionate impact on public belief.
What are signal events?
Bachmann found that this specific employment status was a significant predictor of a higher number of attacks, likely because these individuals have more time to dedicate to the activity.
What is being unemployed?
o broaden his data beyond the "Union Hack" group, Steinmetz performed an ethnographic content analysis of 193 articles from this specific publication, written largely "by hackers, for hackers"
What is 2600: The Hacker Quarterly?
This component of the hacker mentality involves seeing "the spaces between the bars" to solve problems in creative and unconventional ways
What is creative unorthodoxy
In the 1960s, movies like The Italian Job portrayed hackers not as sinister criminals, but as this type of character
What is comically eccentric
While this personality trait leads hackers to engage in a higher total number of attacks, it is actually associated with lower success rates.
What is risk propensity?
Drawing on the work of Richard Sennett, Steinmetz argues that hacking is best understood as this type of labor, defined by the intimate relationship between "the head and the hand"
What is a craft (or craftwork)?
Because hackers often learn through master-apprentice relationships and prioritize skill-based status, their social structure is compared to this medieval organization
What is a Guild?
This Victorian-era character type is considered the prototype of the hacker: a person of profound knowledge who uses technology to wield power over others
What is the savant?
Because hackers are identified as highly rational actors, Bachmann argues that increasing the certainty of detection and prosecution is the most effective way to achieve this
What is deterrence?
ather than a static state of "is" or "is not," Steinmetz argues that being a hacker is a continuous process of "this," where status is earned through the ongoing development and peer recognition of skill
What is becoming?
This hacker imperative involves breaking technological or legal restrictions to ensure a computer does what the user wants, not what the designer intended
What is the sense of ownership (or the hands-on imperative)?