The Hackers Manifesto

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by spoiledtechie • 18 years ago

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gaius• 18 years ago

Not our kind of hacking.

revelude• 18 years ago

Not your kind of grossly capitalistic hacking. :)

eru2• 18 years ago

I lived in a so called socialistic state for the first five years of my live. That's enough for a whole live.

marcus• 18 years ago

I prefer this one "Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live."

stcredzero3• 18 years ago

I had one teacher was trying to teach us about the moon landings. She threw up a picture of the Lunar Lander and said, "Oooh, look, it's a Moon Walker!"

That's wrong on three levels at least.

Mush-for-brains imprecision is one thing when teaching history. Now imagine that applied to teaching about technology. Ugh.

megaduck• 18 years ago

Wow. Flashback to 9th grade.

Glad I'm not there anymore.

stcredzero3• 18 years ago

Enough pointless raging against "the machine" or "the man." Create something useful or beautiful or both.

Harkins• 18 years ago

It can be both useful and beautiful to rage against the man.

anuraggoel• 18 years ago

Teen angst.

"You build atomic bombs..." Oh, not you Mr. Feynman. You're fine.

spoiledtechie• 18 years ago

Such a long time ago....

tptacek• 18 years ago

This is to hacking what The Cure's "Disintegration" is to popular music.

brentr4• 18 years ago

I find it amazing that many of these people complain about the school system leaving them behind, behind in the sense that it didn't fulfill all of their curiosities. I felt the same way, but I didn't complain; I went to the library.

LogicHoleFlaw• 18 years ago

The system doesn't leave you behind. It locks you into your seat with your eyelids taped open with turgid pap being projected onto a screen in front of you.

Any creativity or individual initiative which resists the system is swiftly punished.

brentr4• 18 years ago

I read books while many of my teachers lectured. They knew there was only so much they could do for me without seeming to neglect the rest of the class. I was left alone to read or do what I wanted as long as I did the work that was assigned.

devicenull• 18 years ago

I had this memorized at one point..

mdakin• 18 years ago

Wow, memories. Reminds me of going to the 2600 meetings in the Pru's food court and hanging out with guys from the other sides of Boston who I'd have known no other way. Guys with whom I'd later go to college and/or start companies. Reminds me of learning how computers actually worked by reading and finally understanding "Assembley for Cracking" by the shepherd, playing with Macsbug, ResEdit's code editor, and referring to a Morotola m68k manual which Motorola sent me for free after I called and asked for one. Reminds me of cracking software for fun. Neither distributing the cracks nor really even using the cracked software but knowing that I could do it. Reminds me of trying to find every way possible to locate the base-address of the VRAM and then blitting pixels directly into it "by hand for speed." That MOV16 instruction on the 68040 was really something. Back then my little brain focused so much energy on this stuff and it's something I don't even remember unless someone posts something like this to news.yc. So strange.

Oh and if anyone has "Assembley for Cracking" I'd love to read it again! :)

kwamenum862• 18 years ago

What is the significance of the image at the end?

pistoriusp• 18 years ago

It's a screenshot of logs showing someone trying a brute-force attack so gain entry via ssh. They used the username "Hitler."

eru2• 18 years ago

It's on Windows. That spoils the whole page.

I mean you can go work on Windows when you have calmed down and want to make money (or actually explore the system etc). But an angry young hacker on Windows?

kwamenum862• 18 years ago

I got that but...what does that have to do with the rest of the article?

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