Social Engineering, Monsters, Hackers and the Culture and Politics of Technology, Secrets, and Fear

With the advent of the film WarGames, to the recent prosecution and suicide of information freedom activist and coder, Aaron Swartz, hackers and hacking have become part of our language, imagination, and cultural landscape. With their beginnings in the 1950s to the present, our collective conception of the hacker has gone from hero to antihero; from political prankster to rebellious teenager, to criminal master-mind out to undermine the social fabric. Embedded within the archetype of this trickster figure are also our unconscious fears and ambiguous connections to technology.



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