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File: HACKER MORALITY
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A lesson in phreaking and hacking morality:
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I find it truly discouraging when people, intelligent people seeking
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intellectual challenges, must revert to becoming common criminals. The
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fine arts of hacking and boxing have all but died out. Though you newcomers,
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you who have appeared on the scene in the last year or two, may not realize it,
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we had it much better. People didn't recognize our potential for destruction
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and damage because we never flaunted it, nor did we exercise it.
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For hacking, it was the intellectual challenge which drove us to do it.
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The thrill of bypassing or breaking through someone's computer security was
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tremendous. It wasn't a case of getting a password from a friend, logging on,
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and destroying an entire database. We broke in for the challenge of getting in
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and snooping around WITHOUT detection. We loved the potential for destruction
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that we gave ourselves, but never used.
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Today, after so much publicity, the fun has turned to true criminality.
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Publicity we have received is abhorring. From WarGames to the headlined October
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Raids, to the 414's, the Inner Circle, Fargo 4a, and the recent NASA
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breakins--not to mention all the local incidents that never made the big
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newspapers, like breakins at school computers or newspaper computers. TRW
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credit information services claims hackers used the three stolen accounts to
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aid them in abusing stolen credit cards. The thrill of entering and looking
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around has shifted to criminal practicality--how can I make my bank account
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fatter--how may I use this stolen credit card to its fullest--how could I take
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revenge upon my enemies.
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And then there is the world of Phone Phreaking. The number of phreaks has
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grown from an elite few, perhaps ten or twenty, to well over a thousand.
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Still, there remain only about 10 or 20 good, longlasting phreaks. The rest
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receive information and abuse its uses until the information is no longer valid
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.
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Even worse, they seek publicity! They WANT to be caught! Many even use their
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real names on bulletin board systems to promote publicity. Meanwhile, the REAL
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phone phreaks have been resting in the shadow of the rest, waiting for
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phreaking to become so dangerous as to become a challenge once again. Once
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security tightens and only the strong survive (phreak Darwinism?), phreaking
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will be restored as a way to 'beat the system' without costing anyone anything.
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Hacking may soon be dead, but may phone phreaking live on!
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Big Brother
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