#PHRACK HIGH COUNCIL SPEAKS

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On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 04:24:12AM -0700, jdyson () treachery net said:
> On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 phrackbitch () bloodbath co uk wrote:=20
> =20
> > Hacking doesn't need pansy definitions or 60's hippy undertones. There
> > is only one modern definition of hacker. You either hack or you don't.=
=20
> =20
>       How I miss the days when being a hacker was not synonymous with
> criminal intent; when hacking meant devoting time to one's deep passion
> and understanding of technology rather than a maladjustment that required
> one to piss in everyone else's cornflakes.

Well said. :) Young angst burns hotly, but the Net is full of once-active
anarchist style 'hackers' who have now either disappeared, gone legit ("sold
out") or just grown up/wised up. The same old anti-establishment
hate-it-because-it's-there attitude that's been around for years, but if it=
's
not combined with a little common sense and intelligence about the world, h=
as
no chance of ever making an effective change.

If the 'pr0ud supp0rt3rz 0f pr0j3kt m4yh3m' really want to effect a change =
in
the security industry or the Net at large, they would do well to spout less
rhetoric and start taking action and getting involved. Read up on the histo=
ry
of the Net, and learn from your predecessors. Angst, passion and attitude
may get you noticed, but it won't make any lasting difference unless coupled
with some intelligent action.

>       If anyone ever wonders why hackers and hacking gets such a bad rap
> in the popular press, they need only reference this "manifesto."
> =20
>       And yes, there are Greyhats.  Any old fool can break the rules.=20
> It takes someone with a modicum of creativity to bend them.

Any old fool can break the rules. The young fools just think they're the
first to do so.

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-=3D Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =3D-
  GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527
        illum oportet crescere me autem minui

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