THIS LAME FUCKING SITE HAS BEEN
HACKED BY
Ez|ne and
self
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 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 willing 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.
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