Your duty as a hacker...

look.. i was planning to aim this msg at nakoka but then some other kiddies might have to hear this..

yes.. hacking is indded can be considered as a great gift and is powerful.. but as the old saying goes.. "with great powers comes great responsibilities"

you have the advantage compared to other ordinary internet user who just go online everyday, check their e-mails, do internet banking and other regular stuff...

these people are not aware of the danger that lurks under the murky water..

it is our responsibility as hackers to help these defenseless people against malicious kiddies who abuse their knowledge...


d00d.. you have the gift.,. use it wisely.. sure its fun breaking into security.. trust me... i do that everyday.. but its the motive that counts..

i break security for the sake of trouble shooting their security.. and i do report to them as soon as i find something wrong.. coz these people dont know as much as i do.. not because i want to play God...

i hope your goals would be thesame as mine.. you have the knowlegde.. use it for the good of others... trust me.. their thank you is rewarding enuff for me.. and when the time comes that i would need help.. i know these people that i help would come and help me too..

i already broke into numerous university servers and copied their security setting files.. coz normally the administrator is required to document everything he does.. and i saw a lot of companies have poor network security settings.. so i e-mailed them and told them whats wrong... and as a thank you they gave me LEGAL access to their library so i can download anything i want..

now i didnt demand these people to give me access.. but they were very thankful that they want to give me legal access...

and damn.. i got a lot if infomative files from those universities..

surely just a thank you would be enuff for me..

be good.. do good.. and some how.. all these good things will come back at you a hundred fold..

and ermm.. hehe try to keep this on top d00d.. :) thanks!..

When I talk to my friends I tell them that I study "Network Security." People have this misconception about hackers, so when I say "Network Security" people never think I am some criminal. Im not saying hackers are criminals, but that is the way they see those people. If I told my friends I was studying to be a hacker, they might think of me that way. I do not condone illegal activities, but I study them, and hope to learn how to protect against them.

true.. very true..

i too study network security.. well that's just a module of my course which is Network Administration... and i do get bad responses as to hacking.. they always think im a bad guy and do nothing but just crack and deface and vandal and all that..

if a computer gets ****ed.. they always point the finger at me.. coz im the only one in class who is capable of doing it.. but what about people in other classes? im not the only guy who goes to that university.. its hard..

and to think.. all i want to do is to protect people, like those who bloody point their fingers at me, from the kiddies who does the things the accuse me of..

hehe juz keeping it on top..

Indeed, but then again it's the media we need to blame. Every moron that can make a powerfull virus using some lame ass program is called whizzkid/hacker etc.
What do they call some guy that hotwired a car? an automotive electrical engineer/genius?

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if a computer gets ****ed.. they always point the finger at me.. coz im the only one in class who is capable of doing it.. but what about people in other classes? im not the only guy who goes to that university.. its hard..

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Oh have i been there .. :mad:

Once I got sendt to the principals office just for having some innocent files in my user dir .. :rolleyes:
I got accused for "hacking" (I guess its required to put "cracking" inside a couple of parantheses in this forum :p )

Knowledgable people gets blamed because of ignorant sysadm's
And i wasnt all that knowledgable either lol.. (college)

Exaaactly.... ..So i was acused of "hacking" our main server through the old external telnet...What happens, all of a sudden the excel pw crack on my workstation is able to jack everything....Says who,,The moron Admin....Why? Me thinks it would have been more reasonable (read safer) to just say....dood..."How do you do the things you do?"

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Why shoot the messenger before you read the message?

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hehe hmm its juz human nature how other normal people fear or blame or even hate us..

as Charles Xavier (X-Men) says "people fear what they dont understand..."

they fear us coz they dont understand us.. i know it sounds predjudistic but its the fact that most of us do face.. :(

I agree.
The media is the one we should blame.
Anything matter related to computers and stuff, they keep saying again and again, "some hackers bla bla bla..."
But I think that as long as script kiddiots are around, it wil keep happening.
The thing is that we have to make understand those people that knowledge is the only thing that's important for people like us and that it doesn't imply breaking into systems illegaly and stuff like that.

I dont know if I make a point here.
Correct me if u think I'm missing something.

And yeah, People fear what they don't understand.
It's the same stuff with metal music.
Most people think that just because you wear a black shirt and have long hair your some kind of devil or something.
That's all bullshit...

I've said it once and I'll say it again...Knowledge is power, don't abuse it. Hacking should be used for the right reasons. :cool:

I agree with this guy

i agree that the media does have a big influence on what people think of us hackers but it is also are job to teach the media and the public for what we really are so they wont think of use as some cyber terrorists. but i have to hand it to some tv shows like frontline that did a wonderful report on hackers and gave both sides of the story.

i've tried and educate our school more about hacking and weaknesses in our system ever since so many kids started to explore our network by writting articles in our school newspaper and helping the school admin, we just have try and get the word out to as many people as we can.

i agree that knowledge is power and should be used responsibly. the biggest problem we as hackers/security professionals have is the misunderstanding of our abilities and power... but most of all a misunderstanding of our intent... people need to realize that not all hackers intend to be evil.

the media r putting us to blame= because they think we are the only ones out there who have the skills to do it.they r partially right because the script kiddies r taking other peoples material.
" envy sits besides death"

My programming teacher in high school (who probably couldn't even spell the name "C++") warned our class that any "hackers" caught changing the wallpaper, editing the marquee screensaver, or participating in any such "hacker activity" would be kicked out of the class. This was after they installed Fortress, intended to subvert the classes dreadful actions (which we promptly disabled in minutes). I wondered to myself if this teacher even had any clue as to the potential danger of *real* crackers. Then I wondered how someone who thought changing wallpaper was hacking, was put in charge of the network. I guess it just comes down to the fact that, as hard as it is to believe, a great number of the people put in charge of various networks, really don't know jack about security. I also think recently, more and more people are coming to see that true hackers are on their side. The more we help others, the better image we will create.

look teacher! i changed my wall paper and screen saver! im l33t!!! hahahah.. quick call the FBI!! lmao...

uuhh.. ignorance...


u get kicked out for changing the wall paper or the screen saver.. how dumb can dat be...

knowledge is a very powerful object. it can be used to save lives and it can be used to take them away. it creates the skyscrapers that we see and also creates the dynamite and the placement to tear them down. by knowing more about computers than others, "hackers" need to carry on a responsibility to preserve the net for future users and maybe allow for more ppl to learn more about security.