This chapter was pretty solidly cringe-worthy. I wish people would stop trying to dramatize "the 1337 hack0rz". Hacking is, for better or worse, usually more all-or-nothing - there's no harrowing back-and-forth, no little girl prodigies. At best, it's more like a poker game.
P.S. Let me talk to you about Arab oil barons and their propensity to pay vast sums of money to defecate on the chests of women.