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Why Do we hack?
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Illusion <illusion@gamin3d.com>
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Why do we hack?
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Why? The big question. Why do we, as a hacker community, hack? It has
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given thousands an undeserved bad name and put thousands in jail. Yet we
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persist. We continue this insane crusade of hacking!! I will incite you,
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as a hacker, and others, from the non hacking community, into the mind of a
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hacker.
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It starts in grade school. We all started with something. For some it was
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an apple II and yet for others it was DOS 5.x with win 3.1 installed over
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it. No one knew anything. All we did was play games or browse folders.
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Then came the internet. Holy shit! I can talk to people across the world!
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I can be whoever / whatever I want to be. All I have to do is type! Then I
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heard of a hacker. Now what's this. A hacker...at that time "hacker"
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wasn't such a bad name. It was still mainly used for programmers who
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"hack" at code until its perfect. I didn't know who or what a hacker was
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all I knew was that it sounded interesting.
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It started with simple script kiddy stuff. You basic sub7 or you simple
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virri. This didn't take much. All I would do is take the disk to the
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target.....plug it in and presto. Go home and I can access their comp.
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Ahhhh......real elite. Then you read. I think all hackers are born good
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readers. You read about programs called telnet and ftp. What's this? I
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can do all this stuff without having to pop in a disk? Wow. You start
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playing around with these tools. You learn about ports and their
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weaknesses. You learn about basic password cracking and finding ways around
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them. Its still real simple stuff.
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Then comes the glory. You crack your first system. Everyone can remember.
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Its a thrill of a lifetime. I remember calling my friend and telling him
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how I did it. It was my school. We had lots of fun with that school.
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Learning more and more each time you signed online.
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I think that's why we do it. Why we commit ourselves to do this crime. I
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have talked to a countless number of hackers and they all agree. Some
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people say its the quest for knowledge. And yes I agree. It is. I always
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love learning something new and then trying it out. Everyone has been
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there. Staying up till 2 AM so you can finish reading the article.
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I hope that this has showed a little bit into a hackers mind. For a hacker
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is misunderstood. No one is out there to be malicious and cruel but they
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are out there for the thrill and the knowledge. With this I hope that you
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understand the hacker better......for it is not us that is the criminal but
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you.
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~~ILLUSION
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