Post #1471
· Apr 18, 2005, 8:14 PM
#5623
Fora tekstić, kad već sla?emo... 
Hackers have always been considered an "out" group in society.
In schools, hackers are seen as "nerds" and "loners" without social
skills (Levy, 1984; Turkle, 1983); in larger society, they are
prosecuted by those in power. In the words of a hacker:
"I am a hacker." If I ever told that to anyone, it would
immediately be assumed that I am a malicious,
vandalising, thieving, pseudo-terrorist out to take over
the computers of the world for personal gain or quite
possibly to glean some morbid satisfaction from deleting
megs upon megs of valuable data.
"I am associated with the computer underground." If I
ever told that to anyone, there would be a flash flood of
foolish associations in that person's mind between myself
and The Mafia, with Saddam Hussein, Syria, Libya, Abu
Nidal, and who knows what else.
Almost universally, among the ignorant majority, we
hackers are considered to be dangerous thugs whose sole
purpose in life is to cause as much damage as we can in
as little time as possible to the largest number of
people.
Sure, there are those little kiddies (mental and
physical) who call themselves "hackers" and fit the above
descriptions. There are also people who call themselves
"human beings" that rape, murder, cheat, lie and steal
every few minutes (or is it seconds, now?). Does that
mean that all "human beings" should then be placed in
prison? ("Toxic Shock", 1990)
As with any minority group, hackers are judged as outcasts,
and social, economic, and political resources are withheld from
them as a result. The commentary on the police raid at the PumpCon
convention (see page above), as well as the commentary above,
are reflections of hackers' anger at being constantly derided and
looked down upon as a worthless menace. The hacking culture is
definitely not a part of any established institution. However,
hackers often express a wish to work with an established
institution, such as the police, for both personal gain (less
chance of being prosecuted yourself) and for the good of the
movement (hackers feel that police should be spending their time
and resources going after the real computer criminals, such as
corporate embezzlers).
We cannot, we WILL not, allow this tyranny to continue!
The United States Government has ignored the voice of the
Electronic Community long enough! When we told the
government that what they were doing was wrong, they
refused to listen! When we formed political action groups
to bring our cases to court and before Congress, we were
told that we were using loopholes in the law to get away
with crime!!! We have, in a peaceful and respectful
manner, given our government more than reasonable
petition for redress of our grievances, but if anything
the situation has gotten worse!
Government administrations use computer crime as a weapon
in internal battles over jurisdiction. Government
officials, who have only the slightest understanding of
computer science, use computer crime as a tool for career
success. Elected Representatives, who have absolutely no
understanding of computers, use "information
superhighways", computer crime, and cryptography to gain
constituent money and voter support! The Electronic
Community, the only group who fully understands the
issues involved here, and the only group who is effected
by the decisions being made, has been completely ignored!
("The White Ninja", 1994)
pa ja sam hacker 
Da mi je samo znat tko je napisao taj hackers manifesto...tako jebeno zvuci! Spomenuli su ga i u filmu!
