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CULTURE HACK [1 record]

Record 1 2021-07-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology
  • IT Security
CONT

The hacker culture is a subculture of individuals who enjoy the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming limitations of software systems to achieve novel and clever outcomes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie
  • Sécurité des TI
CONT

La culture informatique deviendra quant à elle culture du piratage par excellence. Le piratage tel qu'on le connaît est pour ainsi dire né avec l'informatique : avec ces étudiants du MIT qui, à la fin des années 1950, s'introduisaient de nuit dans les salles des machines de leur prestigieuse université, afin de donner libre cours à leurs expériences.

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