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I'm going to
talk about hacker ethics.
Well I'll start off by saying how pissed
off I'm getting and others are about "crackers"
giving us a bad name. You have probably read about 100
articles about this subject before, but what the hell, lets
make it 101.
Well, you probably see me on IRC saying,
"1 0wn j00" or something of that nature so to put
it, but like I'm joking around, so are alot of other hackers,
just messing around with their mates. But some hackers are
not. This is what worries me. Hackers are not like they used
to be. I mean, we were all newbies at one time. I know they
are annoying at times, but imagine you at their keyboard.
Trying to find out how you spoofed (many people ask me), how
you hacked that and so on. Why not help them, or at least lead
them in the write direction, I usually tell them some things
to netsearch or some sites of interest.
People that come on IRC and ask how to
hack, thinking there is a program to do it for them, piss me
off. These people will never be hackers. These are the people
who have just watched films like, 'The Net' and 'Hackers'.
People that root something, then think
"they are the world" piss me off. That might of just
been a once off... and I bet you they will be saying to their
friends they are going to hack a government site next.
I hang out on IRC, the Undernet and I see
many people coming into hacking channels asking how to get
access to other people's machines, mostly their friends. They
only wanting to do this to damage it as you can tell, they go
on about how can they upload a virus to it too, etc. These
people are crackers, or will be one day. These are the people
that piss me off and give Hackers a bad name. That's totally
wrong, where's all the exploring gone? Down the drain I tell
you.
News papers stereotype us, saying
"hackers" broke into a system and deleted files or
crashed the entire network. They are crackers, someone should
correct them. I hope any people to do with the media reading
this will try to remember this next time you are writing a
hacker article in the future, we would be very greatful.
This sterotype is showing. I own #HackTech
on Undernet, as you may know and EVERY day you will see some
one ask about BO (Cult of the Dead Cow's) remote
"lame" (some may say) program. I have never used
this and do not wish to as it just shows the lamest that just
any user can "point and click" so to put it and 90%
of the time people want to use it for destruction, why else
would it have reboot options, etc? (so I have read). Programs
like these give us a bad name, I bet you that in any news
paper they print about BO, or any media site they will use the
term "hackers". People think crackers are people who
crack passwords, they are not, they destroy machines. Hackers
explore, find out more, for their knowledge.
As RLoxley said in his editorial in the
last issue and I will quote, '...for the thrill of the chase,
the rush of the kill, and the freedom of knowledge gained from
their "holy quest"'.
People do not understand, hackers hack,
not virii, not carding, not warez (well not much) and
certainly not damage to a computer. A computer is a hackers
best friend (most of the time when it does what he/she wants).
I do not want you to get the impression all hackers are male,
they are not. I have spoken to some female hackers out there,
which know their stuff, and are very good hackers. They seem
to follow the ethics for some reason, maybe its in their
feminine blood, maybe not...
If a hacker does mess a computer up...
delibratley, then he/she should not have the title cracker,
therefore he/she is lower, he is a cracker. Changing webpages
is still lame, unless you have an important message which I
will talk about now. If you back up the old webpage for the
sysadmin, tell him/her you have done so and notify him of
his/her security fault and patch it for him/her or tell
him/her how to, then this still follows the hacker ethics,
thus not lame and not a cracker.
I personally think that hackers come out
with too much crap in their hacks on machines and changes
their webpages. I mean, as I said earlier, people say "1
0wn j00" or something to that type, which is what is
called an "elite language". This hacker may be
mucking about with his friends or as a joke... but how does
the sysadmin and others know that you are not mucking about?
People that do not know you personally (I
mean like know your personality) will not know. They get a
sterotype image of hackers then, and a sysadmin of someone
that has only come in contact with that one hacker may
sterotype it and think all hackers are like that.
I think if you hack a webpage (ie;
rooting a machine and editoring the httpd section) then you
should put a message out. If you do not have an important
message, leave it, do not do any damage, just explore the
system and leave a backdoor or something until you might have
a message to be heard. Hacking is not all about being heard
but if you do have a message to get out then this is a good
way too.
People will take no notice if you just
put aload of "elite typing characters" in the hack
as people have seen it all the time and won't think again and
won't give a shit. Where as the sysadmin or person that has
came in contact with a hacker and saw them write in
"elite language" and on this hack they show they can
actually speak English and have a message to get out, it will
get noticed. They will think to them selfs... this
"hacker" (a cracker but they do not know the
difference) is different, maybe they're not all out there
trying to destroy machines and cause choas. Thus they will
understand what a "cracker" and a "hacker"
is.
You think about it and I'll leave you
with my favourite part from "The Hacker's
Mainifesto".This is our world now... the world of the
electron and the switch, thebeauty of
the baud. We make use of a service already existing
withoutpaying for what
could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteeringgluttons,
and you call us
criminals. We explore... and you call uscriminals. We seek
after knowledge...
and you call us criminals. Weexist without skin color, without
nationality,
without religious bias...and you call us criminals. You build
atomic bombs, you
wage wars, youmurder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us
believe it's for
ourown good, yet we're the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My
crime is that
of curiosity. My crime isthat 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
neverforgive me for. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto.
You may stopthis
individual,but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all
alike.
Take care, until next time... (Jerry
Springer bye bye)
Laters,
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