Evil Corp. E Corp. He never really read it the right way. He had trained a part of his brain to always see it as Evil Corp. It was a strange coping mechanism. Be he couldn't help it. A part of him still hated E Corp and probably always would. He had to start letting that go now that he was in Preya. But he couldn't.
Before Elliot had a chance to reply to his question about ethics in hacking, he saw Merlin raising his glass. Awkward interactions. Why did people do this sort of thing? At least it didn't involve touching. He raised his glass and clinked it against Merlins. "That's one way of looking at it" he smiled slightly. Shit, better respond to the question. That's what people did, right? That was polite, right?
"Honestly?" he shrugged. "A lot of it I do believe... Hackers keeps developers on their feet and vice versa. They're constantly trying to one up each other. And the tech industry, especially cyber security gets misrepresented in the media way too much as it is. I had to explain the difference between white, red and black hat to a room full of so called techs which should honestly speak enough volumes. There's a lot I have to hold back on because there's no point with that kind of corporate crowd" he shrugged. "Half of them barely remember what a terminal looks like. And if any of them are genuinely running windows? We're truly fucked..."