A hacker as Wark describes, is someone who deals with creating something new. They are a “classless” group that wants to freely distribute information. I agree with Wark that these are the certain qualities that are inherent in a hacker. After all, how many people do you know who proudly goes around announcing that they are hackers? Not many. Hackers have a negative connotation to them; they are something destructive and needs to be punished for it. However, as Wark puts it, they are creators, “not always great things, or even good things, but new things.” Perhaps it is that they create new things that it is such a taboo class.

Take the hacker activist group Anonymous for example. They fall into the many qualities that Wark describes that make up a hacker. They are “classless” in the sense that the members are as their name may obviously point out, anonymous. No one knows who they are. How do you put anonymous people in a class structure? It would be very difficult. Anonymous are also in the business of distributing information and actively applying it to real circumstances. In the recent news of what happened in Ferguson, Missouri, Anonymous was involved with investigating and revealing the identity of the officer who shot and killed Mike Brown. With the information they gathered, they applied it in an attempt to force the police to apologize and stop the unnecessary violence against the people of Ferguson. Although it did not seem to have much of an effect, they were able to use their abilities as hackers. In essence, hackers are sort of jacks-of-all trades as they have to find, distribute, create and apply all sorts of information to create something new, whether it be for good or bad.