The Hacker Manifesto

With all the stuff happening on the net today from Anonymous, and Lulzsec, to PIPA and SOPA. I figured it was a good a time as any to reiterate the great, famous, and immortal words from our "Mentor".

The Hacker Manifesto

by

+++ The Mentor+++

Written January 8, 1986

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.

Bud did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's techobrain, 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 one that begins with school... I'm smarter than most other kids, this

crap they teach us bores me...

Damn underachiever. 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 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 that I

want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed up. Not because it doesn't like

me... or it feels threatened 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 though the phone line

like heroin though an addict's veins, an electronic pulse it 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.

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 slip though were pre-chewed and

tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that

had something to teach 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 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 by 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.

via [http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html]

[mentor] your words will stand the test of time, they have become immortal. As we move on... new, young inspiring hackers will find and read these words, adopt, and live by them. We are legion.

‘Anonymous’ hacks Chinese government, protest freedom and civil rights

‘Anonymous’ hacks Chinese government, protest freedom and civil rights:

Notorious hacker group “Anonymous” on Thursday claimed responsibility for attacks on several government Web sites in China. The group has launched various Internet attacks on the country over the past week in response to what it believes to be strict and unfair laws. “All these years, the Chinese Communist government has subjected its People to unfair laws and unhealthy processes,” the group wrote on one Chinese website. “Dear Chinese government, you are not infallible, today websites are hacked, tomorrow it will be your vile regime that will fall.” The group goes on to warn that further attacks are on the horizon. “So expect us because we do not forgive, never. What you are doing today to your Great People, tomorrow will be inflicted to you. Nothing will stop us, nor your anger nor your weapons. You do not scare us, because you cannot afraid an idea.” Anonymous also acknowledged the Chinese people directly, telling them to remain optimistic, “Don’t loose hope, the revolution begins in the heart.”
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via [BGR]

0x10c: Minecraft Developer Notch’s Next Game Will Be A MMO Space Epic

0x10c: Minecraft Developer Notch’s Next Game Will Be A MMO Space Epic:
In the world of indie gaming, Minecraft is undoubtedly in a league of its own. The sandbox game has already sold more than 5 million copies and has spawned its own subculture of fan sites and clones. Now, the game’s creator Notch (nee Markus Persson), has announced his next project called 0x10c: a multi-player space game set in 281,474,976,712,644 AD. Besides the usual space battles, trading and mining we have come to expect from these kinds of games, 0x10c will also feature a fully functioning emulated 16 bit CPU that will control your spaceship and which will be fully programmable by the player.
As if having a programmable computer at the core of the game wasn’t enough, 0x10c has what must be one of gaming’s geekiest premises: the reason it is set in 281,474,976,712,644 AD is due to the simple fact that in 0x10c’s parallel universe, the space race never ended and that a computer bug in a new “deep sleep cell” introduced in 1988 caused a large number of people to sleep for 0×0001 0000 0000 0000 years instead of the planned 0×0000 0000 0000 0001 years.
For now, only the specifications of the 16 bit processor are available and Notch hasn’t released any screenshots yet. Just like he did with Minecraft, though, he plans to release early beta versions as they become available. One major difference with Minecraft is that 0x10c will feature a recurring monthly fee, as all the physics and in-game computers will continue to run in the cloud, even when the players themselves are not online. Users will have the option to play the game in a single-player mode as well, though, which won’t have recurring fees.
In a way, this feels like the natural next step up from Minecraft. While Notch’s first game was built around mining and “crafting” tools (with some multi-player options thrown in for the hardcore fans), this new game takes this concept further by offering users a bigger world to play in and even more customization options through the built-in programmable computers. It’s worth noting that users will also be able to share their programs, which will surely give rise to a whole new real-world ecosystem around the game and, as Notch himself acknowledges, maybe even viruses.

via [TechCrunch]