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That was over quick.

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“Okay fine; we’ll just call you a witch. Er wait; wizard is probably a better term, I suppose…”

Bwa ha ha ha ha! So relatable!

Technica comment: something strange with the bottom half of the image, numerous compression artifacts.

This is uncomfortably close to real life…

Aaaaaaaaaaawwwwww she’s so shy <3

Lol.

Everyone running around in middle school uniforms.

Miss Lilly is a superMom.

Kat, on the other hand, doesn’t know what the difference between “programmer” and “hacker” is. Or rather, she’s aware that the former is an enclosed subset of the latter.

So she can’t figure out how “programmer” could possibly mean anything other than “especially dangerous hacker”.

Hm? If programmers were a subset of hackers as you say, then there’s some kind of hacker that isn’t a programmer; what do they hack? Hackers are a subset of programmers.
Aren’t TENka’s programmers that maintain the cities considered trustworthy, and not branded as hackers?
“All programmers are hackers” was roughly the Hacker Hunts confusion, but even in that extreme case, “hacker” meant “(bad) programmer” – and these events are all within living memory, it would take a lot of misconstrual of history to think “programmer” means “(extreme) hacker”.

I wouldn’t say hackers are subset of programmers, because just as there are programmers that aren’t hackers, there are hackers that aren’t programmers.

Most common attacks don’t require writing a line of code from you, and often don’t even require understanding any code.
For example, phishing attacks. You could say that creating a phishing website is programming, but most attacks will just use some template and change some text in it. No programming knowledge required.
But you could say that social engineering is not hacking… But there are many tools that automate other types of attacks.
SQL injections can be mostly automated with sqlmap, and even if we skip that I’m pretty sure many people would argue that SQL is not exactly programming, just like HTML is not programming language.

Then you have to remember how many of data leaks occured because the only security measure to protect them was just not listing the link to the data anywhere… Really, you can sometimes just find databases with sensitive just hidden and not protected in any way.
Or admin panels with no password/some really easy combination.

You might find quite a lot of people who are “hacking” without any programming knowledge, even if you can assume that most of hackers will have some experience with writing code, as often even if you don’t need it to find a vector of attack, you will have to create a custom payload…
(But you still might be able to just buy most of what you need)

It’s not that all programmers are extreme hackers.

But all programmers are hackers, because you have to hack before you can meaningfully program. And if you program productively, you often hack rather than program.

This is not a matter of “hacking” considered as a category of criminal behavior. Whether doing anything with information is “criminal” or not is purely a matter of legislative fiat and enforcement conventions, that’s what is meant by the phrase “information wants to be free” (yes, it’s a hacker slogan).

Hacking very simply means using an existing tool to do something (anything, really) the originator didn’t explicitly intend. It has overlap with cracking, which is breaking a tool to make it do something the originator explicitly intended to prevent.

All crackers are hackers. All programmers are hackers. But not all programmers are crackers, nor are all crackers programmers.

Seeing how a witch hunt decimated a huge part of the programmer profession, maybe Kat does know, but she’s not sure those people she barely met, do.

less Kat doesn’t know and more Kat’s worried by whether they will pitchfork her

I’m having high school flashbacks. Not sure why. 😛

I agree with you about the last 3 panels, Aneeka! NICE job!

That is fairly close to the reaction anyone who can program gets IRL when someone finds out they can actually program (I’m constantly amused by how difficult people think it is, same goes with hacking). The difference being the lack of disgust and fear on their faces in real life (assuming they didn’t picture you as a nerd with poor hygiene living in their parent’s basement).

Not A Villain Webcomic

Webcomic of a semi- reformed hacker trying to redeem herself in a post- apocalyptic world she may have created.

‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 718