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                                    Sancho                                   
                                                                             
                ********** sanjin.goglia@sprint.fido.hr **********           
                                                                             
                                                                             
     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 psychology and 1960's technobrain, 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 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 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 happened... a door opened to a        
world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's      
veins, an electronic pulse is 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 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 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 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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