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HTML Author: Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:30:42 +0200
Add hacker manifesto to documents.
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+ The following was written shortly after my arrest. I am currently
+groupless, having resigned from the Racketeers, so ignore the signoff...
+
+
+The Consience of a Hacker... by The Mentor 1/8/86
+
+
+ Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager
+Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank
+Tampering"...
+
+ Damn kids. They're all alike.
+
+ 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?
+
+ I am a hacker, enter my world...
+
+ Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of
+the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...
+
+ Damn underachiever. they're all alike.
+
+ I'm a junior in High School. I've listened to teachers explain for
+the 15th time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No Ms. Smith, I
+didn't show my work. I did it in my head..."
+
+ Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.
+
+ 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...
+
+ Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.
+
+ 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 them all...
+
+ Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...
+
+ You bet you're ass we're all alike... We've been spoon-fed baby
+food 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 are like drops of water in the desert.
+
+ 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 use and try to make us believe it's for our own good,
+yet we're the criminals.
+
+ 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 you will never
+forgive me for.
+
+ 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.
+
++++The Mentor+++
+
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