On: Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city ...

[neolog]

What does the age or casualness of the hacker have to do with anything?

[guerrilla → neolog]

It has to do with how responsibility is percieved here. Different rhetoric will have different results for the same facts.

[crystalmeph → neolog]

If the system is open to a l33t scr1pt k1dd13 who’s hacking knowledge consists of copy-pasting from 2600 articles, it speaks to a system that would stand no chance against a well-resourced adversary. This kind of thing may well be a new kind of front the next time we get into a shooting war “over there.”

[young_unixer → neolog]

It's an indicator for the level of incompetence of the hacked party.

[runarberg → neolog]

I guess the issue is with the word ‘hacker’. I guess using a more descriptive and accurate word like attacker, vandal, or terrorist is more apt here.

[jobigoud → runarberg]

Attacker and terrorist convey the same thing as hacker, that it was not negligence but a very motivated enemy. Vandal works better.

[runarberg → jobigoud]

Hacker is someone that finds a way to use a thing out side of the designed purpose. There is no value judgement in the word alone, and the word does not say whether the hacker is hacking with an intent to do harm. This is normally not how news media frames criminals, as they tend to use words which assign guild to the guilty, (like criminal, thieve, burglar, sexual predator, etc.). Attacker, vandal, and terrorist all do that, while hacker doesn’t.