> What I, and most hackers do belive though is that all
> information should be free and the government is stoping this goal from
> being acheived. They must expect attempts by hackers to acheive their
> goals.
i tried hard to read this without laughing, it seems that this phase is more
common than i thought. I too went through it but I was quite wrong in my
assumptions. INFORMATION is NOT and should not be free. I discovered this as
a musician. I create electronic music that takes sometimes months to
complete. It takes a lot of *soul* searching and hard work to accomplish the
musical compositions I have created. it cost me a lot of money to go to
College for music (not really, I was on schollarship) so it cost the state.
My point being, Under the hacker philosophy, all my work is now free to
everyone else, copyrights be damned. Whatever money and effort i put into is
now free for everyone and I can make no living in music, thanks to that
philosophy. If info was free, there would be no info. It costs millions of
dollars to make decent sceintific headway, should pharmacudical companies
just give all that info away and throw away their profit? why would anyone be
in business if they couldnt gain from it? When i hacked, experimented with
drugs, and explored the seedy underbelly of society, it was easy to be
spiteful to the rich. I did make money, but not a lot, i had no measurable
financial worth, i had no family to raise or house to call my own. I called
it freedom, but now i call it stupid. The world is full of angry young men
who think society owes them something when they have yet to make even the
smallest contribution to the lives of people around them. I lived in the
crowd, many of my friends are still there, but most have moved on.
> As for big business and rich people, they are really fun to screw with
> because they always think they're better than everyone else, so it's
> good fun to show them who's boss. Also they can probably afford any
> costs from this
Who are you or any hacker to say this!?!?!? Most wealthy people got there
from hard work and intelligence. I did not know this until i spent time among
them. There are some lucky idiots who have fallen into money, but far and
away, the successful people i know worked there asses off to get where they
are. They did all they could for their children, volunteer time and money
(Which I have never known a hacker to do, and I know a lot of hackers) In my
experience, Wealthier people often have a much stronger philosophical
backbone than you suggest. They are often well read, and capable
communicators. You cannot steal from one person and call it "ok" on the basis
that you *think* they can afford it. They do not suspect they are better than
anyone else, not the wealthy I know. Although most hackers I know, think they
are better and smarter than the people they are stealing from, as i once
thought.
and, your final statement "Only the weak are blind when the mist descends"
must come from experience.
Sodom
I have seen the light, someone pull down the shade