RE: Anonymous hacktivists add Stuxnet code to their arsenal
Not to be on the defense but I wouldn't downplay the community. Time and time again they have made a mockery of everyone. I learned 99% of my current IT skills as a consultant from doing things when I was young and stupid. This has given me great insight into the community and how it thinks as a collective. Companies that chose not to hire me mistook lack of paper certification as lack of skill and have resulted in many nice consultancy paychecks from many happy customers to myself.
Programmers use examples of code all the time and the final product is whats left. Saying they can do nothing with a guidebook means we have books in school for no purpose either. Reverse engineering is so deeply rooted in what is done every day I can't help but laugh thinking any less of a thought is an insult to them. A company might have a few developers, a collective could be thousands and more and all with the same sharing purposeful intent.
