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TES Presents
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| The Ethics of Hacking |
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written by Dissident
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I went up to a college this summer to look around, see if it was where I
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wanted to go and whatnot. The guide asked me about my interests, and when I
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said computers, he started asking me about what systems I had, etc. And when
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all that was done, the first thing he asked me was "Are you a hacker?"
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Well, that question has been bugging me ever since. Just what exactly
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is a hacker? A REAL hacker?
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For those who don't know better, the news media (and even comic strips)
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have blown it way out of proportion... A hacker, by wrong-definition, can be
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anything from a computer-user to someone who destroys everything they can get
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their evil terminals into.
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And the idiotic schmucks of the world who get a Commodore Vic-20 and a
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300 baud modem (heh, and a tape drive!) for Christmas haven't helped hackers'
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reputations a damn bit. They somehow get access to a really cool system and
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find some files on hacking... Or maybe a friendly but not-too-cautious
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hacker helps the loser out, gives him a few numbers, etc. The schmuck gets
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onto a system somewhere, lucks up and gets in to some really cool information
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or programs, and deletes them. Or some of the more greedy ones capture it,
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delete it, and try to sell it to Libya or something. Who gets the blame?
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The true hackers...that's who. So what is a true hacker?
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Firstly, some people may not think I am entirely qualified to say,
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mainly because I don't consider myself a hacker yet. I'm still learning the
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ropes about it, but I think I have a pretty damn good idea of what a true
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hacker is. If I'm wrong, let one correct me...
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True hackers are intelligent, they have to be. Either they do really
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great in school because they have nothing better to do, or they don't do so
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good because school is terribly boring. And the ones who are bored aren't that
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way because they don't give a shit about learning anything. A true hacker wants
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to know everything. They're bored because schools teach the same dulll things
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over and over and over, nothing new, nothing challenging.
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True hackers are curious and patient. If you aren't, how can you work
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so very hard hacking away at a single system for even one small PEEK at what
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may be on it?
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A true hacker DOESN'T get into the system to kill everything or to sell
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what he gets to someone else. True hackers want to learn, or want to satisfy
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their curiosity, that's why they get into the system. To search around inside
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of a place they've never been, to explore all the little nooks and crannies
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of a world so unlike the boring cess-pool we live in. Why destroy something
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and take away the pleasure you had from someone else? Why bring down the
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whole world on the few true hackers who aren't cruising the phone lines with
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malicious intent?
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True hackers are disgusted at the way things are in this world. All the
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wonderful technology of the world costs three arms and four legs to get these
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days. It costs a fortune to call up a board in an adjoining state! So why
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pay for it? To borrow something from a file I will name later, why pay for
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what could be "dirt cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons"?
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Why be forced, due to lack of the hellacious cash flow it would require to
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call all the great places, to stay around a bunch of schmuck losers in your
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home town? Calling out and entering a system you've never seen before are
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two of the most exhilirating experiences known to man, but it is a pleasure
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that could not be enjoyed were it not for the ability to phreak...
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True hackers are quiet. I don't mean they talk at about .5 dB, I mean
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they keep their mouths shut and don't brag. The number one killer of those
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the media would have us call hackers is bragging. You tell a friend,"or you
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run your mouth on a board, and sooner or later people in power will find out
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what you did, who you are, and you're gone...
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I honestly don't know what purpose this file will serve, maybe someone
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somewhere will read it, and know the truth about hackers. Not the lies that
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the ignorant spread. To the true hackers out there, I hope I am portraying
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what you are in this file... If I am not, then I at least am saying what I
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think a true hacker should be. And to those wanna-be's out there who like
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the label of "HACKER" being tacked onto them, grow up, would ya?
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Oh yeah, the file I quoted from... It has been done (at least) two
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times. "The Hacker's Manifesto" or "Conscience of a Hacker" are the two
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names I've seen it given. (A file by itself, and part of an issue of Phrack)
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Either way, it was written by The Mentor, and it is absolutely the best thing
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ever written on the subject of hackers. Read it, it could change your life.
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Spread it around, but don't change anything please. . .
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Another file downloaded from: The NIRVANAnet(tm) Seven
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& the Temple of the Screaming Electron Taipan Enigma 510/935-5845
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Burn This Flag Zardoz 408/363-9766
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realitycheck Poindexter Fortran 510/527-1662
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Lies Unlimited Mick Freen 801/278-2699
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The New Dork Sublime Biffnix 415/864-DORK
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The Shrine Rif Raf 206/794-6674
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Planet Mirth Simon Jester 510/786-6560
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"Raw Data for Raw Nerves"
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