Dropped Packets

Are there Filipino hackers? Probably.  Marc Roger’s old paper on demographics of hackers would have us believe that.  Demographics aside, it is fun to think about how hacker’s respond to bizarre unintentional downloads.

Regarding demographics, Marc Rogers’ research for his doctorate involved the psychology of the hacker.  You can find some of his work here:  http://homes.cerias.purdue.edu/~mkr/.  This work however is far from current.  Does anyone know of a more up-to-date public resource?

Popular research indicates that hackers are typically males between the ages of twelve and 28, but there seems to be no publicly available break-down on hackers by nation states.  This is interesting with all the talk of hackers from China (http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1098371,00.html).  How many hackers are in China? A better question might be “How many males between the ages of twelve and 28 have computers in China? What would happen in a country where a large part of the population is female?

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