Glorious Escapism Roleplay

Toutaku · Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 9:58 pm Post subject: Last Words of 'The Mentor'

The Conscience of a Hacker

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 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..." 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 you all... Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike... 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. 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.

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. 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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"Victims, aren't we all?"

Toutaku · Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 9:58 pm Post subject:

I felt this should be shared...
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Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 11:46 pm Post subject:

Interesting. What exactly is it?
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Selrahc · Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 12:07 am Post subject:

Nice story.

Hacking's awesome. If only I was good at it...
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Shut up and bleed, you motherfucker.

Toutaku · Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 5:20 am Post subject:

The Mentor was a very prominent figure in Hacking a while back, and he wrote what I posted for a magazine. I just think it says a lot...
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"Victims, aren't we all?"

Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 5:28 am Post subject:

Ah, I see. I don't know that much about hacking, I suppose.
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Toutaku · Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 5:49 am Post subject:

Not even just about hacking, I think it says a lot about today.
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Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 5:58 am Post subject:

I mean that I had never heard of him.

I can relate with some of it, I suppose.
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Toutaku · Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 6:01 am Post subject:

I suppose he isn't that well known any more.
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Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 6:07 am Post subject:

Or I'm just not knowledgeable when it comes to such things.
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The mutant 0408 · Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 5:53 pm Post subject:

Man, that was cool. I used to white hat for some places. well if they ran Javascript I could. I could read that like english. I haven't done any net hacking (for good or evil) for a long time now. I probably can't read any of the new computer code If i tried.
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Toutaku · Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 5:55 pm Post subject:

That's the trouble, you have to keep updated DAILY.
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The mutant 0408 · Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 5:57 pm Post subject:

Yup, and back then I had to run to the library to do anything on the net.

I couldn't keep up, so I quit. Oh well, I was never sloppy, but it was probably a good thing that I did. Now adays, only one mistake and your gone.
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Toutaku · Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 6:05 pm Post subject:

Very true. It'd be awesome to hack something big though.
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The mutant 0408 · Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 6:10 pm Post subject:

well unless they have a pre 2003 osx then I doubt I could help. Heh lets hack psn oh wait nvmd.
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