<div dir="ltr">Hi All,<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>I'm teaching a class on June 15. Feel free to cross post to Public School, Noisebridge, etc..</div><div><br></div><div>Sign up here if you are interested:</div>
<div><br></div><a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#June_15:_From_Phone_Phreaks_to_Wiki_Leaks:_A_History_of_Ethical_Hacking" target="_blank">https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned#June_15:_From_Phone_Phreaks_to_Wiki_Leaks:_A_History_of_Ethical_Hacking</a><div>
<br></div><div><p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em">Before "White Hat" hackers and "Black Hat" hackers there were "Ethical Hackers". These groups and individuals may not have always stayed within the confines of the law, but followed a well defined ethic. This is the story of MIT pranks, the golden age of the BBS, The Great Hacker War, Steve Jackson Games vs. The US Secret Service, Old school hacking tech ( Blue Boxing, Red Boxing, War Dialing, etc ), New Hack City and the rise of the Cult of The Dead Cow, Free Kevin!, Hacktivismo, and more... <br>
</p><p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em"><br>The Hacker Manifesto</p><p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em">
by</p><p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em">+++The Mentor+++</p><p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em">
Written January 8, 1986</p><p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em"><br>Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...</p>
<p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em"><br>Damn kids. They're all alike.</p><p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em">
<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?</p><p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em">
<br>I am a hacker, enter my world...</p><p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em"><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...</p>
<p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em"><br>Damn underachiever. They're all alike.</p><p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em">
<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. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..."</p>
<p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em"><br>Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.</p><p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em">
<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...</p>
<p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em"><br>Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.</p><p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em">
<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. "This is it... this is where I belong..." 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...</p>
<p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em"><br>Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...</p><p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em">
<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.</p>
<p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em"><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.</p>
<p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em"><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.</p>
<p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em"><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>
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<div><br></div></font></span></div></div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>-------<div>Andrew Lowe</div><div>Cell: 831-332-2507</div><div><a href="http://roshambomedia.com" target="_blank">http://roshambomedia.com</a></div>
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