What’s wrong with the kids these days?

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http://www.puscii.nl/blog/content/whats-wrong-kids-these-days

On the moral decay of the Dutch hacker scene

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Of course, nothing is more normal and healthy than for kids to rebel against their parents, but our parents have given us a difficult task there. For how in hell does one rebel against oldies who self-identified as “techno-anarchists” and were all too pleased with their image as online rebels? Some of the kids found a way: join the police! Well, technically, create a company that does the online dirty work for the police, but in this day and age of neo-liberalism and privatisation the difference is marginal…
Now, the notion of hackers voluntarily joining the police probably sounds completely absurd to an outsider, but that’s pretty much what happened. The Dutch High Tech Crime Unit is called Fox-IT. In case the name doesn’t ring a bell, they’re the main sponsor of OHM2013, employer of half of the organising core team, and you may find their logo painted on the wall of a Dutch hackerspace - not as a fuck-the-police-type graffiti, but as a thank-you for their kind sponsorship.

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