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 +<H2 ALIGN''CENTER>The Hacker Manifesto 
 +</H2>
 +<P ALIGN''CENTER>by<BR>+++The Mentor+++<BR>Written January 8, 1986</P>
 +<P>Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. &quot;Teenager
 +Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal&quot;, &quot;Hacker Arrested after
 +Bank Tampering&quot;...<BR><BR>Damn kids. They're all alike.<BR><BR>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?<BR><BR>I
 +am a hacker, enter my world...<BR><BR>Mine is a world that begins
 +with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap
 +they teach us bores me...<BR><BR>Damn underachiever. They're all
 +alike.<BR><BR>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. &quot;No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it
 +in my head...&quot;<BR><BR>Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all
 +alike.<BR><BR>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...<BR><BR>Damn kid. All
 +he does is play games. They're all alike.<BR><BR>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. &quot;This is it... this is where I belong...&quot; 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...<BR><BR>Damn
 +kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...<BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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. 
  
 +</P>
 +<P STYLE''"margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
 +</P>
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 +
 +
 +-- Main.FredPettis - 16 May 2008
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