I don't think it's that simple. Any fool can put on a Guy Fawkes mask and start dropping dox over whatever people are up in arms over and people will think that's great, even though the people who do that after are fools and drop dox on the wrong person. I think the image of hackers is more ambivalent than it was, but it's not entirely negative. Or maybe it was that ambivalent all along; wargames was about a teenage hacker who almost started a nuclear war after all.1) This is a story about a high school kid who accidentally brings the world to the brink of a nuclear war, yet he's our hero. He is, after all, just a kid. I don't think you could make that movie nowadays because everybody knows teenage male hackers are a bunch of perverts who exist solely to break into your phone and post your beaver shots on 4chan. "Hackers" were such a neat thing until we actually experienced them as a culture; now they're persona non grata of the highest order.