[Inori]

Hell no! There are vast amounts of hackers out in the world. Just look at the homebrew teams for the wii, wiiu, switch hacking. That's a small example of people who still love to scrap things down to their basics and rework them the way they would like! It's there but societies views on it lean towards the mainstream hacker mentality.

I agree with you about the homebrew scene, but it's been denounced to just that. It's no longer called hacking, rather, modding, regardless of what it really is. Personally, I think the whole "tech-literacy movement" with regards to Anonymous, Edward Snowden, North Korea, the NSA, and other factors really warped the general public's perception of what hacking really is.

Additionally, these issues are why I love shows like Mr. Robot so much. Sure, it didn't get everything right, nobody's infallible, but Mr. Robot really gave everybody a proper look at the subculture. Everyone who only picked up on and started paying attention to "hacking" when or after Anonymous was getting big is either too paranoid about the NSA bugging their fucking microwave or ignorant to what the term really means, and pop culture can really help or hurt that perception.