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 1950's techno brain, ever take a look behind the eyes or the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped molded him, what may have 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 the 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 addicts veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetence is sought, a board is found. "This is it... this is where I belong..." I know every one 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.
I recently moved back to Allentown, PA after living in Arizona for 7 years. I've been working in the Information Technology industry the last 9 years. In Arizona I was working in a Network Operations Center for a Secure Hosting and Disaster Recovery firm. It wasn't a bad gig, but the new job offer was worth the move.
Music is one of my many passions. I love drumming, DJing, Music Production, etc. My taste in music is rather wide:
Death Metal, Jazz, Trance, Ambient, Downtempo, Funk, Drum 'n Bass, Classical, Experimental..
Interests:
DJing, Music Production, Gaming, Hacking, System Administration, Network Security, Programming, Cosmology, Ancient Literature, Occult and Religious Studies, Philosophy, Hiking, Gardening, Clubbing and Raves, Concerts, Economics, Conspiracies, Science Fiction
Movies:
Operation Endgame, The Fountain, Donnie Darko, Freejack, Hardwired, Hitman, I am Legend, Logan's Run, Mad Max, Monty Python, Resident Evil, Grandma's Boy, Primer, Johnny Mnemonic, Pandorum, Event Horizon, Serenity, Where the Buffalo Roam, Liquid Crystal Vision, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Groove, Human Traffic, Spun, Vampire Hunter D, Aeon Flux, The Departed, The Bourne Supremacy, Hackers, Metropolis, 12 Monkeys, Shooter, Tears of the Sun, Moon.
Books:
The Death Gate Cycle, Celestine Prophecy, The Tenth Insight, The Art of Deception, Hacking Exposed, The Vedas, By Reason of Insanity, The Law, Common Sense, Emerald Tablets of Thoth, Egyptian Book of the Dead, MetaGame, Daemon, Freedom.
Quotes:
Terrence McKenna
"Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable."
"It's strange you know, the Net is denounced as austere, the product of the engineering mentality, so forth and so on. It's the most feminine influence that Western civilization has ever allowed itself to fall under the spell of. The troubadors of the fourteenth century were as nothing compared to the boundary-dissolving, feminizing, permitting, nurturing nature of the Net. Maybe that's why there is an overwhelming male preference for it, in its early form, because that's where that was needed. But it is Sophia, it is wisdom, it is the penetrating archetypal female logos of the world-soul, leading us away from what was very sharp-edged and uncomfortable and repressive to our creativity and our sexuality and our relationships to each other and to the Earth."
"We must begin to send out ideological visions rather than be the consumers of them. We need to turn off the metaphorical televisions which are hooking us into the network of cultural assumptions dictated from the Pentagon and Madison Avenue and what-have-you. We need, instead, to turn on our terminals, and to begin to interact with like-minded people throughout the world and establish this new intellectual order, which will be then the salvation of mankind, I firmly believe because it is a collectivity, and people will then feel the interrelatedness of their fates, feel the interrelatedness as a thing which transcends national divisions, ideological divisions, feel the primacy of being part of the human family."
"It's only in western civilization that you get this steady focus on this monotheistic ideal, and working out the implications of what is essentially a pathological personality pattern. The pattern of the omniscient, omnipresent, all-knowing, wrathful male deity. No one you would invite to your garden party."
Osho
"All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be -- don't try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance."
"Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder."
"Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love."
Likes
DJing, Music Production, Gaming, Hacking, System Administration, Network Security, Programming, Cosmology, Ancient Literature, Occult and Religious Studies, Philosophy, Hiking, Gardening, Clubbing and Raves, Concerts, Economics, Conspiracies, Science Fiction
Dislikes
Tyrannical governments which seek to subvert their populations into submission via false flag operations, propaganda, and psychological warfare. Bush, Bush Sr, Obama, Obamanoids, Clinton, McCain, Palin, all the fake puppets put in front of you to make you think you have a choice. Anything made by Toshiba, IBM, or DELL. Happy Hardcore, any metal album that has a wizard on the front. 115 degree summers in Arizona, The Mainstream Media. Anyone who cannot respect themselves or others. People who buy into the illusion that any of this is real.
Favorite Music
What you'd find in my Music Library..
Heaven Shall Burn, In Flames, Dark Tranquility, Sonic Syndicate, Arch Enemy, Amon Amarth, Samael, Bleeding Through, Fear Factory, Dimmu Borgir, Immortal, Hatesphere, Meshuggah, Dillinger Escape Plan, Mnemic, Napalm Death, At The Gates, KMFDM, Six Feet Under, Cannibal Corpse, Freaky Flow, 1200 Mics, Infected Mushroom, Shpongle Raja Ram, Dieselboy, Air, Lamb, Astral Projection, Pendulum, Dillinja, Alien Project, Talamasca, Technical Itch, Future Sound of London, Pleasurehead, Black Sun Empire, Rank 1, Thievery Corporation, Ulrich Schnauss, Sofa Surfers, The Orb, LTJ Bukem.
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