Hacker's already have logos. For the most part they can already be identified from the penguin to the daemon to the embrace of the term 'geek', 'nerd' and the sleep deprivation that the love of coding causes.
The need for some single unifying symbol is not there as when a hacker wants to find a hacker, he will find a hacker. Water seeks its own level, so hackers find hackers and build hacker groups to find more hackers. I mean geez, the internet should be proof alone of that.
And besides as with any other clique, the posers soon often reveal themselves before they can be rooted out. The sad truth is a logo would simply make it easier for a poser to pretend and then upon being rejected simply continue to pose though not to a hacker but to those outside the clique, which would only be to the detriment of the hacker , his friends and the world.
Okay that might be a bit grandiose but you get my point.
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Hacker's already have logos. For the most part they can already be identified from the penguin to the daemon to the embrace of the term 'geek', 'nerd' and the sleep deprivation that the love of coding causes.
The need for some single unifying symbol is not there as when a hacker wants to find a hacker, he will find a hacker. Water seeks its own level, so hackers find hackers and build hacker groups to find more hackers. I mean geez, the internet should be proof alone of that.
And besides as with any other clique, the posers soon often reveal themselves before they can be rooted out. The sad truth is a logo would simply make it easier for a poser to pretend and then upon being rejected simply continue to pose though not to a hacker but to those outside the clique, which would only be to the detriment of the hacker , his friends and the world.
Okay that might be a bit grandiose but you get my point.
------- Thank you for your time, Rocko