The problem is that the real world is boring...
Hacking has long since moved away from kids in their bedrooms, or people digging whistles out of cereal boxes to phreak with.
As with other industries such as video games, it's been commercialised, industrialised and is occasionally state sponsored.
The "hackers" no longer sit in abandoned buildings surrounded by piles of empty pizza boxes and pop bottles, but instead work in from a desk in a brightly lit, air conditioned office sat in an anonymous industrial estate. And they probably have managers and quarterly performance reviews, to boot.
To be fair, I'm generalising almost as much as the traditional "ev1l l33t h4ck3r" cliche.
But as with so many other professions and activities (e.g. being a spy, or going on tour with a band), the truth is usually a lot more boring and banal than most people expect...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
