DEFCON's Latest Challenge: Hacking Altruism 47
jfruh writes: A casual observer at the latest DEFCON conference in Las Vegas might not have noticed much change from last year — still tons of leather, piercing, and body art, still groups of men gathered in darkened ballrooms furiously typing commands. But this year there's a new focus: hacking not just for the lulz, but focusing specifically on highlighting computer security problems that have the potential to do real-world physical harm to human beings.
Poor activity description (Score:5, Insightful)
"Hacking Altruism" makes it sound like you're trying to exploit people's sense of altruism for some other goal.
"Altruistic Hacking" captures the idea that you're hacking for the benefit of other people.