I was reading the latest issue of Blacklisted 411 and someone had wrote in a letter asking about what happened to the community (as in the security community/hacking community) and it got me thinking, just what did happen?

In the old days people used to share info (ok everyone kept a little back I suspect, but for the most part we all shared), no one needed to get upload/download/posting points, it just kinda worked, you wanted to know something, make a post, yes some dick might flame you, but there seems to be more of that now then ever. I`m sure I don`t remember so many people never really answering questions and instead just pontificating. How many times does someone post a message saying "I want to hack!" which ok, is a dumb question, but the usual response tends to be "don`t ask that"," why would you be so stupid", rather then "you know what,heres some stuff to go try" it doesn`t need to be "heres how to take down amazon.com" it could be "heres how Windows used to be cracked into using null sessions (which still works in some places)" or something like that. We just seem to have lost our way a bit with all this, and I am talking about a more wider sense, not just antionline, but across the board, many folks seems to be engaged in a perpetual pissing contest, who will win? well probably no one.

Also, I never really had a good arguement about Commodore 64 v Sinclair spectrum, as who really gave a crap, as long as I could play uridium on my C64, and Starquake on a spectrum.

Just wondering what peoples thoughts are on the subject, at times antionline seems to be reminiscent of the days of old, everyone sharing info, but it seems to be part of an ever decreasing number.