That's why girl hackers are as rare as Linux code in a Windows factory. They're not as drawn to the hostile elements of cyberspace as men are. Not that they couldn't be. Women have the brains and the skills to hack but they're more interested in building communities, and in more creative things, like Web design. She talks instead of bravura intellection, inventing algorithms, computer code that is elegant, graceful and just plain ol' fun.
Hackers are the elite corps of computer designers and programmers.
And in the off-hours, they can turn their ingenuity to sparring with enemies on the Nets, or to the midnight stroll through systems you should not be able to enter, were you not so very clever. It's a high-stress life, but it can be amazing fun. And while you're at it, imagine a world in which testosterone was no longer a prerequisite of membership in any elite corps of computer designers and programmers. Imagine a world in which equal numbers of men and women were adept at tapping the art, elegance and power of technology. Its membership is male not because men's biological urges drive them to sit in front of a computer screen and wangle their way through firewalls.