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>I also addressed certain people personally in my research, for example Bruce Sterling, a writer and specialist in the US-hacker scene. He wrote me back: "It's true, there are NO women hackers, but it no longer amazes me. Hacking is a teenage-male voyeur-thrill power-trip activity. You don't find female computer intruders, any more than you find female voyeurs who are obsessed with catching glimpses of men's underwear. Women are very, very rarely arrested for sneaking around in the dark of night, peering through bedroom windows. Teenage males are arrested for this all the time. It's not that women are physically or mentally unable to do it. It's just that there is no motive. Don't believe me? I would advise you to go to some cracking sites, and get the omnipresent point-and-click software, and go ahead and crack into some computers. You will soon discover how incredibly dull it is. There is no emotional payoff there.
>You don't find young men who shoplift cosmetics, they just never do that. But young women do that ‘all the time’--stealing expensive lipstick and hiding it in your purse, that is the female emotional equivalent of a hacking-crime. There aren't many women who cruise around sites trying to snitch passwords and break into stuff at random. I don't know of any such women, personally. And I've never even ‘heard’ of a woman who did it on her own, without some boyfriend at her shoulder eagerly telling her how exciting it was. I once heard Jude Milhon vaguely refer to such a system-cracking woman. But I think it was an urban legend ..."
>You don't find young men who shoplift cosmetics, they just never do that. But young women do that ‘all the time’--stealing expensive lipstick and hiding it in your purse, that is the female emotional equivalent of a hacking-crime. There aren't many women who cruise around sites trying to snitch passwords and break into stuff at random. I don't know of any such women, personally. And I've never even ‘heard’ of a woman who did it on her own, without some boyfriend at her shoulder eagerly telling her how exciting it was. I once heard Jude Milhon vaguely refer to such a system-cracking woman. But I think it was an urban legend ..."
