I don't know how the group got diverted on to the topic of hacking,
other than my invitation to come and check out my yahoo group,
hackerz_n_hickory... but anyways, to address your fears...
Hackers, for the most part are really good at one thing, are
reclusive, masturbate more than most people, and are anti social, so
the standard hacker is basicly a technologically capable psychopath..
Pychopaths are a good thing, and the strongest mentally...
Hackers are not evil, nor do they wish to destroy everything, sure,
they tear up stuff, to find out how it works, they probe things, ask
questions, and pull out there soldering iron in an attempt to make
things better.. not to destroy them... If it weren't for hackers,
99.999 percent of you out there wouldn't be working on your windows
based PC's... Personal computers were actually developed because of
hackers!! No one but me remembers the Alto??? Read a book called
dealers in lightening, if you want to find out where PC's really came
from, excentric.. intelligent, hackers.. who wanted to make things
better, and faster... and I believe they have... the
malicious "hackers" you refer to are called Crackers in the hacking
communiity... they crack into sites, steal credit card numbers, etc..
but the rest of us, like me, are out here wondering how to wire 32 2
gigahertz pentiums together, and install 30 gigs of memory in our new
P4's.... (Intel already is developing a 20 gigahertz chip....) Were
the people that modify our computer cases.. put neon lights in the
case... have them running faster than anything you can get mass
market... we use scsi drives because we know they are faster, more
reliable, and better made than the mass market crap you can buy off
the shelf.. we rip apart the bios code of our systems, just to free
up an extra bit or two of memory.. we are the true techno freaks of
the cyberage.. the dreamers.. the revolutionaries.. the people who
take a old ford pinto and drop a 455 cubic inch engine in the
thing... that is the equivalent of what we do... or at least, what I
do.. so, yeah.. we rip things apart, we look into the bios code, we
find ways to make our computers run better, to make our cd players
and recorders play new types of media (I remember when you could
order a home made MP3 player from a few hardware hackers online about
a year before they made it to market in the us....I still have my 233
hooked up in the back of my car for just such a purpose...40 gig hard
drive, filled with music!) What I'm saying is, hackers, hardware,
software, and otherwise, eventually end up developing new devices
that make your lives easier, faster, or cooler... so don't demonize
them..Just sorta like saying all Christians are like Pat Robertson,
or that all Muslims are like Osama Bin Laden..Generalizations suck...
and for the most part.. hackers are the reason we have these cool ass
lil P4's and macs to play with, talk trash to women on the internet,
etc.... So, thank goodness for them... and if someone does something
illegal, treat them like the crooks they are, I'm down with that..
what I'm not ok with, is everyone who likes electronics/ computers/
etc, downgrading all hackers into the realm of criminals...
Just my humble opinion... and hey, opinions are like assholes,
everyone has them, and they all stink :P
Charles
Parazite@...
hazenoff@...
hazenoff@...
hazenoff@...
