# Wearing Many Hats

DevFeed: [Wearing Many Hats](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/wearing-many-hats-37113.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shostack.org/blog/wearing-many-hats/>)

Author: Adam

Published: 2022-01-24T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Shostack & Friends Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shostack-friends-blog.md>)

Topics: [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>)

Tags: [cryptographic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cryptographic.md>), [export](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/export.md>), [government](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/government.md>), [history](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/history.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [report](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/report.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [surveillance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/surveillance.md>), [transformation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transformation.md>)

## AI overview

The article reviews Wearing Many Hats: The Rise of the Professional Security Hacker, a history of how 1990s hackers established legitimacy as employable and trustworthy security experts. It praises the report while noting that early cypherpunks also addressed surveillance, activist targeting, and cryptographic export controls, with overlap between hacker and cypherpunk communities.

## Source excerpt

Fascinating history of a transformation in how hackers were seen.