Internet "Netizen" culture and demographics

One of my papers I recently wrote at National War College talked about the culture of the internet, combined with increasing youth presence that dismisses traditional authority links, tends to lead toward more desire to free information.  Part of that is the hacking culture.  I'll talk more about the paper later, but here's an interesting example.

This article discusses a Navy sysadmin recently arrested for hacking.  He was apparently part of a hacking group.