I upvoted you for the insight, but I disagree. Even some geek friend of mine has defined anon's DDOS as a "revenge of the hacker culture". I think it doesn't hurt to remind people that 4chan is to hackers what a tagger is to banksy.

As for the sterility of the discussion around the world hacker, I don't see anything bad with it. In fact I find much more ridiculous the new fashion that anything is hacking. Hack your brain, hack your coffee, hack your wife and hack your dog.

To be honest, I even dislike the definition hacker for someone who is "simply" an outstanding programmer but that's borderline, I recognize it.