when i was 9 I crashed aol.com and yahoo.com noone cared or cought up to me. But now i have matured and now call myself a hacker then i was just experimenting i used a few programs it tool me an hour on a 2400 baud modem. that is just pathetic. When i heard of this attack i was shhocked i went to see if there was any progress i hunted down the same programs and used them again from my 56K (it has been 6 years) and no progress has been made the worked now. The media is dumb they call this guy a hacker he is by no deffinition a hacker he is a Cracker a degenarate lifeform.

If you read Steven Levy's book, Hackers, it paints a picture of people who love and understand the technology they use. These are people who can "hack" together a solution to a problem with a soldering iron and a few paper clips. People who modify operating systems because they don't like the way they work. People who follow the "hacker ethic" that information should be free

If that's a hacker, that's me.

Other people, however, decided that the mere act of breaking into a computer system made you a hacker. Idiots with barely enough knowledge to turn on a computer could dig a password out of a garbage can, and the press would call them hackers. People would get wardialers and password crackers written by someone else, follow step-by-step instructions to run them, and the first time the program worked, they called themselves hackers.

I began to shudder at the term.

Then these self-proclaimed hackers (what we used to call "crackers") began doing more than just peeking around in systems. They began vandalizing the systems that they broke into. They deleted data. They sold data to foreign governments (see Cliff Stoll's book, The Cuckoo's Egg). They crashed systems. We're not talking about hacking your own system or playing with the school anymore. We're talking about criminals.

If those people are what you call a hacker, then I ain't one of them. If you call hackers people who love technology and have an understanding of how it works, then I'd be proud and pleased to be called a hacker.

Now if "mafia boy" (Lloyd Cottler yeah i knew the guy he used to live in bklyn NY) still thinks he is a hacker he deserves all the punishment he can get.

FIGHT THE POWER

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