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(This was written by a favorite hacker of mine.)

"This was writen shortly after my arrest. I am currently
groupless, having resigned from the Racketeers, so ignore the signoff...

"The Conscience 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 a 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...

"Come on... Ain't Got All Day!!

"Damn underachiever. They're all alike.

"I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to the
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 threatend 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 junk through an addict's veins, an
electronic impulse 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...

"Come on... Ain't Got All Day!!

"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 prechewed and tasteless.
We've been dominated by the sadistic, or ignored by the apathetic.
The few that had something to teach us 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 religous 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.

"Come on... Ain't Got All Day!!

"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', arrested the summer of 1986.


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