The "New" Conscience Of A Hacker
-Welcome to the new era

Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers.

"TEEN-AGER ARRESTED IN AOL PASSWORD THEFT"

"HACKER ARRESTED IN CREDIT CARD THEFT"

Damn kids. They're all alike.

But did you, with your old school ethics, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, What may have molded him?

I am a new-age hacker, enter my world. . .

Mine is a world of impatience. . . Why should I waste the time learning something, just give me a program that does it. . .

Damn wannabe. They're all alike.

I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I don't care. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I went "dumpster diving" for the test. . .

Damn kid. Probably on crack. 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 someone "haxored" it. Not because I don't know what I'm doing. . . because I'm "733T". . . "I'm |< R4|>". . . and now I want something for free. . .

Damn kid. All he does is pierce himself. They're all alike.

And then it happened. . . A door opened to a world. . . Rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from my day-to-day incompetence is sought. . .AOL is found...

"This is it. . . This is where I belong. . ."

I can be anyone here. . . These are people I have never met, never talked to them, may never hear from them again. . . I can be a H4x0r!!!. . .

Damn kid. Trying on his sisters clothes again. They're all alike. . .

You bet your ass we're all alike. . . We've had instant TV, Instant Food, Instant Lottery, Instant Coffee, Instant Highs...and we want everything instantly. . . We want the pre-chewed and tasteless. . .We want that pill we can take. . . we don't want to work, and why should we when we can scam it? We are the sponges of society and we feed off the sweat of those who came before us. We are the new age gangsta, the wind up barking poodle in a freudian dream. . .The few that have something to teach us we won't listen too, just give us the program damn it...don't you get it?.

This is our world now. . . The world of carding and warez, and the beauty of the porn. We make use of things already existing without paying for anything that we can scam, and you call us criminals. We nuke. . . and you call us criminals. We seek to destroy anothers work, without religious bias. . . and you call us criminals. You improve the bandwidth, we send more "warez", you log on to check your mail, we mailbombed you, and then we lie and try to make you believe we really "h4x0red", yet we're the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of sloth. My crime is that of typing in letters and numbers, and stealing from your trash. My crime is that of scamming you, something that you will never forgive me for. I am a h4x0r, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all. .