So, what TFA is saying is that the phishing community is just another community of skiddies, just like the rest of the modern "hacker underground" or whatever you want to call it. This is news how?

Besides the obvious hacker/cracker naming issue, the fact is that today's "hacking" community bears little resemblance to the real hacker heroes of the past. The hacking/cracking issue has been hashed out enough around here, so i'll leave that issue alone.

Of the people that call themselves hackers in the modern, media-approved sense, there are only a few out there with the intelligence to write their own stuff. The rest are script kiddies, and just mooch off of the work that has already been done.

So now someone spends months wandering around the phishing scene, and is surprised to discover that its not any different then the rest of the hackers of today's world. I fail to see how this is newsworthy.