Hacker culture is the term used for intersecting communities of people who are interested in creative uses of technology and/or circumventing computer security.

Hacker conferences include:

• DEFCON
• ShmooCon
• ToorCon
• Hackers on Planet Earth

There are also Hacker spaces which are workshops where hackers come together to build stuff. Some hacker spaces have events for women.

Women in hacker culture Edit

• Leigh Honeywell

Hardware hackers:

• Limor Fried started Adafruit industries: http://adafruit.com/
• Leah Buechley is responsible for the Lilypad, a sewable microcontroller board: http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardLilyPad

Incidents Edit

• DEFCON comic strip incident