I recall thinking back then that hackers were mysterious and cool. Fast forward to becoming a computer programmer and spending my life reverse engineering basically everything to be able to do my job and it seems laughable how much fear people have of basically anyone that spends time understanding anything they don't.

Look! A witch! :D

Also, I guess if you were a girl, you had a free pass, because if this article was anything to go by, hackers could only be boys(?)