http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hacker.html
This man is a genius. I am so tired of major news networks f***ing around with the term "Hacker". A Hacker is someone who makes computers his passion, who knows all about them. Please take this seriously. Even my own mother doesn't get it. She won't even listen to me about it.
Don't listen to CNN, or Fox News. They're out to boost they're ratings. All you know is lies. Have some god-damded respect for these people. If you don't understand, shut-up. If you don't want to know, shut-up.
Let's try a little roleplaying: Let's simulate life without hackers. Unplug your modem. Turn off your monitor. Walk away from the computer. They own the net. As I speak your among them. Hundreds. Thousands.
Learn from me. Pass this knowledge on. Don't be a f001.
The following was written shortly after my arrest...
\/\The Conscience of a Hacker/\/
by
+++The Mentor+++
Written on January 8, 1986=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...
Damn kids. They're all alike.
But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?
I am a hacker, enter my world...
Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...
Damn underachiever. They're all alike.
I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..."
Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.
I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me...Or feels threatened by me...Or thinks I'm a smart ass...Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here...
Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.
And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found. "This is it... this is where I belong..."
I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...
Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...
You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.
This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals.We explore... and you call us criminals.We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals.We exist without skin color, without nationality, withoutreligious bias... and you call us criminals.You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.
I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.+++The Mentor+++
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Aaron explained the difference between Hackers and Crackers to us, and assured us that he's an aspiring Hacker, but not a Cracker. Or something like that.
Why am I not surprised about Aaron? I'm sure he could read the title of this post too. ;)
Yeah, we go 'round and 'round about this issue. All I'm saying is it's too hard for most hackers NOT to pull a "Kilroy was Here". THEN it becomes senseless vandalism!
OK, I give up. What the @#&*@ does the title of this post say?!
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Teehee! I'm fluent!
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Bugger.
mmmm. I see in the author of the Z Zone the same courage and the same openness of the young folks in the 60's - who were willing to give their lives to say "no more war." I see frustration because they don't "fit" in the channels they're supposed to "fit" into in high school. The easy, accepted channels of the establishment. Hey, take heart - there is a life after high school and all the idiocies that reside there. I think whatever high school does to some kids emotionally takes at least all the college age years to undo. I guess maybe hacking is the protest song of the 21st century? I do wish I had the brilliance of these foks! And I agree - channel this into something that won't hurt them in the long run - like politics - science - maybe we could raise up a breed of politicians who really CARE for what's right? Find cures for cancer! Wow, wouldn't that be something.
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