Do you sympathise or identify with the free spirit of the hacker subculture? (I'm not talking about kid swho create viruses). My father set up computer programs for the U.S. government in the 1970s, and I've been a computer user since the mid-70s. I support hackers! From Wikipedia: In one of several meanings of the word in computing, a hacker is a member of the programmer subculture originated in the 1960s in the United States academia, in particular around the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) and MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Nowadays, this subculture is mainly known for the free software movement. Hackers follow a spirit of creative playfulness and anti-authoritarianism, and sometimes use this term to refer to people applying the same attitude to other fields, for example music.