An important aspect of the hacker ethos is the "got so mad at broken proprietary thing that I fixed it myself" attitude. It runs explicitly counter to the cop mentality half of infosec has these days.
@daedalus I often don’t recognize our industry anymore. Most now would not have enjoyed the AP years of defcon. I sincerely miss them. The irrelevance. The hack it because you can. The punk rock of it all. Neo has grown up to work for the Matrix.