http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=7&id=3&mode=txt
created by tbarlow13 on 28/03/2009 at 14:12 UTC
60 upvotes, 22 top-level comments (showing 22)
Comment by seeker135 at 28/03/2009 at 14:33 UTC
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Youth is a wonderful thing. Pity it is wasted on the young.-- Oscar Wilde.
Comment by ReverendDizzle at 28/03/2009 at 17:10 UTC
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Wow I haven't read that in 15+ years. I think this might be the oldest "TEH OLD!!!!" ever unleashed on the internet ;-)
Unless someone has some ARPNET ASCII porn to share?
Comment by [deleted] at 28/03/2009 at 18:00 UTC*
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This whole thing reads heavy on the egocentrism. Woe is me, I'm persecuted because I'm so smart blah blah blah.
What I find important is that it reminds people that hackers were, once upon a time, motivated by curiosity rather than money. Although in fairness there were certainly a good number of griefers back then as well.
Comment by jacobu9 at 28/03/2009 at 18:40 UTC
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Cool? You think that's cool? It's just a bunch of commie bullshit.
Comment by kanima at 28/03/2009 at 20:50 UTC*
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So has reddit recirculated everything on the internet *again*? Cause it seems we're back at the beginning.
Comment by niggles at 28/03/2009 at 18:53 UTC
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Only a teenager could write something at once so self-pitying and self-congratulatory.
Comment by Whisper at 28/03/2009 at 19:46 UTC
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My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for
While I agree with certain parts of this writing (gifted children are treated with shameful neglect), this particular statement is so wrong it can't see the truth with a telescope.
A cracker is not smarter than the hacker who built what he broke into in the same way that someone who hotwires cars is not smarter than an automotive engineer.
He spends a long time finding one mistake in code they had a short time to write. He focuses all his attention on a tiny part of what they had to make.
Breaking things has its place. And some bitterness is understandable and right in neglected talent.
But if you really want to prove them wrong, if you really want to prove you're smarter, build something.
And then grow up and realize that the rest of the universe isn't one vast entity whose sole purpose is to interact with you, but a whole bunch of entities that have as little to do with each other as you with them.
The universe owes you nothing. If you want something different, here is the raw material... build what you want to see.
Comment by Kaelosian at 28/03/2009 at 16:03 UTC
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as accurate as this is it doesn't justify causing problems for people who are less powerful than you in a virtual environment. I had to learn this lesson the hard way.
Comment by Unlucky13 at 28/03/2009 at 20:03 UTC
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God that brought some old memories back from having only one phone line for the internet (back in the days of 56K). Being on the computer for more than an hour was considered having a 'problem'.
Comment by veritaba at 28/03/2009 at 19:45 UTC
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hack da gibson11!!! one
Comment by akatherder at 28/03/2009 at 18:19 UTC
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Yes, a hacker's crime is outsmarting you. Same with someone who picks a lock and steals your documents. Someone who mugs you is guilty of being stronger or better armed than you.
Comment by tpicot at 29/03/2009 at 01:06 UTC
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Woah haven't read that in ages...
Comment by [deleted] at 28/03/2009 at 19:05 UTC
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What do they do when the power goes out?
Comment by [deleted] at 28/03/2009 at 19:16 UTC
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Hacking was fun, but I'm starting to get sick of computers.
Comment by [deleted] at 28/03/2009 at 19:31 UTC
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Dwight K. Shrute?
Comment by GeorgeForemanGrillz at 28/03/2009 at 19:17 UTC
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What a blowhard!
Comment by ShitFap at 28/03/2009 at 19:41 UTC
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He forgot to add "sociopath" and "narcissist" and quite commonly "criminal".
He's also confusing "hacker" with "cracker".
Comment by [deleted] at 28/03/2009 at 19:44 UTC
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Exactly.
Comment by [deleted] at 28/03/2009 at 19:52 UTC
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Epic. It should be upvoted more.
Comment by [deleted] at 28/03/2009 at 19:58 UTC
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Brought back such good mammaries.
Comment by Syini666 at 28/03/2009 at 19:17 UTC
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They only outsmart someone technologically speaking, because a truly capable person knows you either conscript the talent or kill them outright to keep a competitor from utilizing the resource.
Comment by [deleted] at 28/03/2009 at 17:36 UTC
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Wow. That Phrack Magazine was a little fracked up. I think I may have just gotten the FBI watching my computer.