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Originally posted here by HANDzCLEANx
But ever since I started getting my knowledge here, I changed, I became a true HACKER.
No I dont know how to break codes or secure networks or anything like that, but I am a HACKER because of my fundamentals.
We all are hackers, in fact, AO is the WHITE-HAT playground to me.
Being called a "hacker" is just insulting. Its so childish and to say that I've had assosiation with "those types" all this time... once agian it is just plain insulting. There is a difference between normal peaple who enjoy computers... as opposed to the so called, self proclaimed "hackers" out there that have merely been influenced into it all by other peaple includeing the media. I remember when I was a kid, playing with BASIC on a win3.1 or a 95. I use my computers because I feel like it. Because its my hobby and I enjoy it.
Then there are those who would do this just to look smart or cool... most of the time its just for the label itself, a dumb word known as hacker. This is all just to help peaple say that they've been appart of something or belonged to something. None of this has anything to do with computers though. Even you yourself have admitted that you joined here not only due to the social aspects but also in the hopes that this would somehow shape or label you into a more haha (truthfull) sense of some dumb word.
