It makes no sense to rail against the corporate culture as if the good of the few were ever going to outweigh the importance given the good of the many. While the "elite hackers" run around snooping through corporate conspiracies and dropping the occasional news story into the AP's hands so as to "educate" the masses about how they are being ripped off by Corporate Greed, they give no consideration to the fact that you simply can not provide the services that the masses are craving by giving it away. It costs money to build technological infrastructures in order to deliver telecommunications services. Plain and simple. The government is overtaxing everyone, corporations included, and wasting that money on worthless enterprises and military brinksmanship in countries we wouldn't even have an interest in if it weren't for Congresses friends in the Oil business. Corporations using two sets of books to try to keep the IRS's grubby fingers out of the honeypot is no different from a black hat scamming ebay newbies out of their hard earned rent money, with the exception that the IRS can afford to lose the money, where the ebay newbie is just as likely to be a little old lady on a fixed income borrowing her son-in-law's corporate issued laptop to try and get a good deal on support hose. In essence, the black hat hacker becomes the IRS, taking more than they need, for no one but themselves, and then penalizing everyone else with their diatribes. Which, by the way, serve no purpose other than to try and justify an action that they just know in their heart of hearts, was a bad thing to do to some poor unsuspecting newbie who just wants to get a good deal on something, just like the hacker does. We are all on the same team. Black Hat hackers are just working against the rest of us just like the IRS is working against the corporations paying our paychecks. So we should all unite against the IRS and the Black Hat hackers and get on with enjoying the fruits of a cheaper, better distributed, freely shared internet!!

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