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| + | ====== The Conscience of a Hacker ====== | ||
| + | The Conscience of a Hacker====== ====== | ||
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| + | Volume One, Issue 7, Phile 3 of 10 | ||
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| + | The following was written shortly after my arrest... | ||
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| + | by | ||
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| + | Written on January 8, 1986 | ||
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| + | Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. | ||
| + | Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", | ||
| + | Damn kids. They' | ||
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| + | But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, | ||
| + | ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? | ||
| + | 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. | ||
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| + | I'm in junior high or high school. | ||
| + | for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. | ||
| + | Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..." | ||
| + | Damn kid. Probably copied it. They' | ||
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| + | I made a discovery today. | ||
| + | cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I | ||
| + | screwed it up. Not because it doesn' | ||
| + | Or feels threatened by me... | ||
| + | Or thinks I'm a smart ass... | ||
| + | Or doesn' | ||
| + | Damn kid. All he does is play games. | ||
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| + | And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through | ||
| + | the phone line like heroin through an addict' | ||
| + | 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. | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
| + | ignored by the apathetic. | ||
| + | ing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert. | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
| + | after knowledge... and you call us criminals. | ||
| + | without nationality, | ||
| + | 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. | ||
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| + | Yes, I am a criminal. | ||
| + | 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. | ||
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| + | I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. | ||
| + | but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike. | ||
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| + | _______________________________________________________________________________ | ||
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| + | </ | ||
