Electronic Emancipation aka The 1337NMEs

We'll be kicking off this year with a special look at what is regarded as probably the fastest-moving and most over-hyped sector of IT and networking these days - cybersecurity.  I say cybersecurity, but effectively it's just plain old "security" these days if your role/job concerns looking after or using pretty much anything that has a plug on one end and more than two buttons on the other.

We'll look at how security affects you, what you should worry about, and how worried you should be.  We'll look at some brief history, the changes over the years, and what the future might hold.  We'll also look at The Hacker ©, his many differing hats and the ethics of "non-Ethical" Ethical Hacking, and the Non-Hacking Ethical's Ethics.  Or something.  So yeah.

Today we kick off with how things have changed over the past quarter of a century (holy shit... I suddenly feel incredibly old having written that...)....