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DEAD SMOKING PUNX
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:BRINGS YOU:
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DSP MINIMAG ISSUE 6
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'HACKERS'
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By: Johnny Rotten
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HACKERS
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Hackers are the elite corps. of computer designers and programmers.
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They like to see themselves as the wizards and warriors of tech.
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Designing software, and creating alithrograms, can involve bravura
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intelection, and tinkering with them is as much fun as fiddling
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with engines. Hackers have thier own culture, thier own language,
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and in the off hours, they can turn thier ingenuity to sparring with
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enemies on the nets, or to the midnight stroll through the systems
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they could never enter, were they not so very clever. Dark-side
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hackers, thrashers, slip into systems for the smash and grab, but
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most hackers are in it for the virtuoso ingress.
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THE HACKERS ETHIC
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I dont know if there is actually a hackers ethic as such, but taking
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a look at the words of Richard Stallman, it sure seems there is, of
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sorts an ethic.
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".... the beuracracy should not be allowed to get in the way of
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doing anything useful. Rules did not matter, results mattered.
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Rules, in the form of computer security, or locks on doors, were
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held in total absolute disrespect. We would be happy at how quickly
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we would sweep away whatever little bit of beauracracy snuck into
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our way, how little time it forced you to waste. Anyone who dared
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lock a terminal in his office, say, because he was a professor and
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thought himself to be more important than other people, would likely
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find his door open the next morning. I would just climb over the
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celing, or under the floor, move the terminal out, or leave a note
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with the door open saying what a big inconvinience it is to have to
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go under the floor, "so please do not inconvinience people by locking
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the door any longer." Even now, there is a wrench at the MIT
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seventh floor AI lab, entitled "the seventh floor, master key".
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To be used in case anyone dare lock up any of the fancy terminals."
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HACKING AND CRACKING
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The term Hacker has come to be associated exclusively with breaking
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security. That isnt what it is at all, but hackers were able to state
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thier total contempt for security people, because security is one form
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of beuracracy. First generation hackers would break security, because
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it was the easiest way to do somthing useful. Now a lot of kids do it
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'cuz its naughty.../<00_/'
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Though its true that showing you can break security thats said to
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be unbreakable, is a nice hack, the origional hackers did not break
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security because it was '/<0o_/' or Naughty, they did it because
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somebody had locked up a tool that they needed to use, in a manner
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of speaking.
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BEYOND HACKER MACHISMO
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I want to get beyone all the bit twiddling, dealing with the machinery.
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Thats just hacker's machismo. I mean, theirs is hard won knowledge,
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yeah, but the real objective is not talking to this retarded machine.
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Its dealing with the higher conceptual levels of what you want to do.
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WHY I HACK
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The Hackers Conference is to me what punk music once was. It embodies
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all of the reasons whyi got into music. It is breaking rules. It has
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a very broad horizon. Whats acceptable to do and whats meaningful
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to do, and it requires an almost religions comitment to acquiring
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special knowledge. Ive known people who are the equivilent of Eric
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Clapton on the computer because they have trancended techniqe.
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CONCLUSION
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Anyway, i hope this phile has been somewhat enlightening, It came
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out of pure boredom. If anyone out there has any comments,
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or questions, membership NFO, etc, Call and mail me.
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Sin City -H/P/A/V/C DSP-WHQ- 3 Years and runnin... (2o9)266.4249 -Celerity
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The Undercity H/P/A/V/C 3000+ H/P/Tfiles 3000+ Virii (2o9)683.3673 -Obv/2
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