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Lord Digital (For being a good friend [Where the hell are you?].) |
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Terminus shares Tuc's views on carding and feels it's a big gap |
between committing fraud and learning the network. As he got older, he got |
more paranoid about things like that. He also feels that the phreak/hack |
"community" has already crumbled. He also feels that the old days were |
better. |
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I hope you enjoyed this file, ...And now for the regularly taken poll from all |
interviewees. |
Of the general population of phreaks you have met, would you consider most |
phreaks, if any, to be computer geeks? No, none of the people that he hung |
out with. Thank you for your time, Len. |
Taran King |
Sysop of Metal Shop Private |
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==Phrack Inc.== |
Issue XIV, File 3 of 9 |
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The following file is being reprinted in honor and sympathy for the many |
phreaks and hackers that have been busted recently by the Secret Service. -KL |
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\/\The Conscience of a Hacker/\/ |
by |
+++The Mentor+++ |
Written on January 8, 1986 |
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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 underachievers. 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 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+++ |
[May the members of the phreak community never forget his words -KL] |
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