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- Are You a Hacker?
- by ReDragon
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- Take a little quiz for me today. Tell me if you fit this
- description. You got your net account several months ago. You have been
- surfing the net, and you laugh at those media reports of the information
- superhighway. You have a red box, you don't have to pay for phone calls.
- You have crackerjack, and you have run it on the password file at a unix
- you got an account on. Everyone at your school is impressed by your computer
- knowledge, you are the one the teachers ask for help. Does this sound
- like you? You are not a hacker.
- There are thousands of you out there. You buy 2600 and you
- ask questions. You read phrack and you ask questions. You join
- #hack and you ask questions. You ask all of these questions, and you
- ask what is wrong with that? After all, to be a hacker is to question
- things, is it not? But, you do not want knowledge. You want answers.
- You do not want to learn how things work. You want answers. You do not
- want to explore. All you want to know is the answer to your damn
- questions. You are not a hacker.
- Hacking is not about answers. Hacking is about the path you
- take to find the answers. If you want help, don't ask for answers,
- ask for a pointer to the path you need to take to find out those answers
- for yourself. Because it is not the people with the answers that are
- the hackers, it is the people that are travelling along the path.
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