Thread by @ErrataRob

Hacking is heresy, challenging orthodoxy. Sometimes orthodoxy and politics are the same thing, sometimes they aren't.

https://twitter.com/hackerfantastic/status/1349442233167130626

Reverse engineering the Parler app to scrape all the public content from Jan 6 (including content marked "deleted" but not yet deleted) is a "hack". It's an unexpected and really cool thing that we didn't expect.

I suppose this also is political, but what makes it a "hack" has nothing to do with politics. What makes it a hack is that people have orthodox beliefs about public scraping of websites that this challenged.

I mention this because large parts of the so-called "hacking" community are in fact defenders of orthodoxy. Instead of breaking rules they are very much concerned with policing rules.