CON
ON BOARD
KENTUCKY FRIED
Ambassador of Venice, Jim Muir was on a roll in Kentucky. First off, Red Dog and 'bad-
dest dude in the world' Chuck Katz had to fend off a charging greasball and his father.
Next, the whole Dog Team was booted from their hotel suites for a mix-up involving ex-
plosives. Then Muir disappeared with an over-enthusiastic skate mom for 18 hours; set
up an exclusive lounge in an empty closet at the Expo Hall during the vert finals; Lost the
keys to his home, business and Harley Davidson; and, finally, sold all of the remaining D.T.
promo gear at enough profit to pay for legal fees and a locksmith. An all star performance.
Another outstanding 'aggression session' award should got to Rob "Mr. Excrement"
Roskopp. In an attempt to project his ad image into the real world, Rosco allegedly squirted
number 1 on the judges and dumped a number 2 in the pool. And you wondered why the
guy doesn't make more cuts these days.
HA
CK
IN
THE CONSCIENCE OF A HACKER
FF
In 1986 I was arrested for a computer-related crime and forced to get out of the hacker
underground for almost a year. This was my final message back then. Although I am
back now, the words are still true and just as applicable in these days of persecution.
Too often hackers are tried and convicted by a sensationalist media which is more
concerned with good headlines than the truth. This column is my outlet to tell our
side of the story.
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.
But did you, in your three-piece psych-
ology and 1950's lowbrow brain, 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 hacker, enter my world... Mine is
a world that begins with school...I'm
smarter than most of the 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 listen-
ed 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 com-
puter. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what
I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because
I screwed it up, not because it doesn't like me.
Or 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 happens.
a door opens to
a world...rushing through the phone line
like heroin through an addict's veins, an elec-
tronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-
to-day incompetencies is sought...a board
is found.
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"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 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 teach found us will-
ing 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 silicon jungle.
We make use of an already existing service
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 knowledge and you
call us criminals. We exist without skin col-
or, 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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