Full-disclosure – Administrivia: The End
Instrumental in this message for me was this part:<p><i>There is no honour amongst hackers any more.</i><p>10-20 years back a term hacker had a close relation to a certain moral conduct emphasizing freedom of knowledge. Today with a mass market of startups, that was largely popularized by Hacker News, this perception has changed. A hacker now is a founder. He must be good at raising money, monetizing a product and the greatest feat of all - <i>exit</i>. There's no more moral obligations of the past. Launch at all cost - the rest is an afterthought.<p>There's a discrepancy between the two cultures. I think this divide is the source of the mailing-list problem and problems with freedom of information and privacy at large we have today.