i agree that the media does have a big influence on what people think of us hackers but it is also are job to teach the media and the public for what we really are so they wont think of use as some cyber terrorists. but i have to hand it to some tv shows like frontline that did a wonderful report on hackers and gave both sides of the story.

i've tried and educate our school more about hacking and weaknesses in our system ever since so many kids started to explore our network by writting articles in our school newspaper and helping the school admin, we just have try and get the word out to as many people as we can.