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=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= \/\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"... drat 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... drat 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..." drat 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 rear end... Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here... drat 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... drat kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike... You bet your rear end 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 will- ing 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, without religious 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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# ? May 30, 2024 12:45 |
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:clap:
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 11:41 |
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my crime is that of curiosity and breaking the law
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 12:22 |
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imagine if he was black
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 16:07 |
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imagein if he was ian murdock
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 16:08 |
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ConanTheLibrarian posted:my crime is that of curiosity
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 18:25 |
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http://textfiles.com/magazines/PHRACK/
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 18:30 |
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George posted:imagine if he was black at the end of the movie with sam jackson and mathewh mcconahey and mat is a laywer and there is the KKK and racial killings and at the end he does a speech and asks everyone to imagine something.. and then says something like "and now imagine that person,, was your father" or something.. what is it he says? because its like a twist that changes everything??
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# ? Mar 12, 2017 19:50 |
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fantastic in plastic posted:drat kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike... Cue buzzfeed's "ONLY 90S KIDS..."
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# ? May 30, 2024 12:45 |
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"and that man was benedict arnold"
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