The
Hacker's Manifesto
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 us teach
found 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 colour,
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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