Have you read the hackers manifesto lately?

dragon300zx

So am I the only one here who has read the words of the mentor? It was brought up at work today and of course I had to pull out a copy from my desk to correct someone who was not quoting it properly.

wxwax

ivar

wxwax wrote:

i think i missed something

dragon300zx

Well sid seeing as it seems you haven't seen it let me clarify. I figured since I wasn't the only geek on here that others may have read this as well. Just trying to see how many others already know of this and have read it.

This was written january 8th 1986 by "the mentor" loyd blankenship a couple of days after his arrest.

==Phrack Inc.==

Volume One, Issue 7, Phile 3 of 10

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The following was written shortly after my arrest...

\/\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 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 ***...
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 *** 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+++

wxwax

Sounds like a guy who was in a lot of pain.

dragon300zx

wxwax wrote:

Sounds like a guy who was in a lot of pain.

Well he had just been arrested :. To me this always spoke of the psychology of a true hacker. I'm not talking about the script kiddie trying to create a virus just because he wants to create problems, or the felon trying to use the internet to steal money from everyone. Those are criminals not hackers.

A true hacker hacks out of a desire to learn, to expand, to grow, and yes sometimes to use information services for free seeing as the only reason they are so expensive is because ceo's who don't understand the technology of how it all works wants to make tons of money off it while they sit at their desk getting drunk. It's more of a self test than anything. Most people who have been hacked by a real hacker will never even know it.

Sorry we were debating this at work.... Has no one else on this board ever read this? I find that so hard to beleive.

Richard

Talk about nostalgia. This really sounds pretty harmless compared to the bot-nets, phishers and extortion rings of today.

Regards,

marlinspike

wxwax wrote:

Sounds like a guy who was in a lot of pain.

Sounds like a kid who would correctly be called a dweeb by other kids.

Bob Bell

Ever noticed how Hackers always shoot using Russian Firmware?

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photodoug

dragon300zx wrote:

Has no one else on this board ever read this? I find that so hard to beleive.

we're busy eating cherry pies