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Date Posted: 08:08:08 06/20/09 Sat
Author: Jason1
Subject: Are You a Hacker?

A HACKER'S MANIFESTO By "The Mentor"
1986

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.

2009
Are You a Hacker?
by ReDragon

Take a little quiz for me today. Tell me if you fit this description. You got your net account several months ago. You have been surfing the net, and you laugh at those media reports of the information superhighway. You have a red box, you don’t have to pay for phone calls. You have crackerjack, and you have run it on the password file at a unix you got an account on. Everyone at your school is impressed by your computer knowledge, you are the one the teachers ask for help.

Does this sound like you? You are not a hacker. There are thousands of you out there. You buy 2600 and you ask questions. You read phrack and you ask questions. You join #hack and you ask questions. You ask all of these questions, and you ask what is wrong with that? After all, to be a hacker is to question things, is it not? But, you do not want knowledge. You want answers. You do not want to learn how things work. You want answers. You do not want to explore. All you want to know is the answer to your damn questions.

You are not a hacker. Hacking is not about answers. Hacking is about the path you take to find the answers. If you want help, don’t ask for answers, ask for a pointer to the path you need to take to find out those answers for yourself. Because it is not the people with the answers that are the hackers, it is the people that are travelling along the path.

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