The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey
by Emmanuel Goldstein · 28 Jul 2008 · 889pp · 433,897 words
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3 New Toys to Play With . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 4 The Early Days of the Net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 5 Corporate History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 6 Raids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 7 The Hacker Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 The 1990s: The World Discovers Hackers . . . . . . 231 8 Pop Culture and the Hacker World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 9 The Computer Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 10 Learning to Hack
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Chapter 3: New Toys to Play With Chapter 4: The Early Days of the Net Chapter 5: Corporate History Chapter 6: Raids Chapter 7: The Hacker Philosophy 94192c01.qxd 6/3/08 3:30 PM Page 2 94192c01.qxd 6/3/08 1 3:30 PM Page 3 Stories and Adventures O
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us all up. And unless they do, hacking is here to stay. 94192c07.qxd 6/3/08 7 O 3:31 PM Page 207 The Hacker Philosophy ne thing that has to be said about 2600 is that we’ve always had a rather unique perspective on the world. It doesn’t
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hackers being super organized, this piece put forth the opinion that most hackers had 94192c07.qxd 6/3/08 3:31 PM Page 209 The Hacker Philosophy a very limited amount of intelligence to begin with. This spawned still more outraged responses. Such was the hacker world of the 1980s. The section
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all kinds of nice things or for you to break in and be discovered, 94192c07.qxd 6/3/08 3:31 PM Page 211 The Hacker Philosophy forcing the system to become more protected? And, if you do break in, don’t you deserve a note of thanks for waking them up
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of whether or not one is on the right side of the law, nobody 94192c07.qxd 6/3/08 3:31 PM Page 213 The Hacker Philosophy wants everything about them to be known. We all have our secrets and more systems like TRW will make those secrets increasingly hard to keep
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things. I knew they really cared, so it didn’t matter what they said. 94192c07.qxd 6/3/08 3:31 PM Page 215 The Hacker Philosophy It wasn’t until a few more weeks that the really bad stuff started happening. The feds began calling my friends and tried to scare
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Hacker Party was all three of these put together, and a good bit more. 94192c07.qxd 6/3/08 3:31 PM Page 217 The Hacker Philosophy MILESTONE: THE GALACTIC HACKER PARTY (continued) The conference took place at the Paradiso Cultural Center in Amsterdam on August 2, 3, and 4. Hackers and
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. In other words, any moron can get a credit card number and many do. 94192c07.qxd 6/3/08 3:31 PM Page 219 The Hacker Philosophy Why are such people categorized as computer hackers? Probably because some of them use computers to get credit card numbers, said a few. Others believe
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easy it is for someone to gain access to any part of the transmission. 94192c07.qxd 6/3/08 3:31 PM Page 221 The Hacker Philosophy Telecommunications and Fraud The beginning of the formal underground phone network started in 1971 with the formation of the newsletter entitled “YIPL,” or Youth International
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switch then answers and gives a system dial tone and the process is repeated. 94192c07.qxd 6/3/08 3:31 PM Page 223 The Hacker Philosophy This progression will continue until the final target phone line is reached. Such tactics can confuse even the best telephone company attempts to trace a
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decrees can include not granting access to the boards or having someone executed electronically. 94192c07.qxd 6/3/08 3:31 PM Page 225 The Hacker Philosophy Such actions have come to the public’s attention with the Tele-Trial of Newsweek reporter Richard Sandza. The story with Mr. Sandza is that
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128 THEN 1990 40 PRINT D$ “ PR#0 “ 45 PRINT D$ “ APPEND DIALER 567 “ 94192c07.qxd 6/3/08 3:31 PM Page 227 The Hacker Philosophy 50 PRINT D$ “ WRITE DIALER 567 “ 55 PRINT N$ 60 PRINT D$ “ CLOSE DIALER 567 “ 65 PRINT Q$ “ CHR$ (26) 70 REM HANG UP AND
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is a “threat,” but it’s the only threat that boards pose. And the 94192c07.qxd 6/3/08 3:31 PM Page 229 The Hacker Philosophy only reason it’s a problem to begin with is because the “threatened” organizations or companies have ridiculously bad security. While it is true that
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-bit keys, cryptosystems, 308 1633 Hz, 31 1980s corporate history, see corporations. see corporations, 1980s early days of Net. see Internet, early days of hacker philosophy. see hackers, philosophy last days of Ma Bell. see Ma Bell new toys. see telecommunications toys, 1980s raids. see raids, 1980s stories. see stories, 1980s 1990s computer revolution
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–408 publicity and, 22 raids. see raids, 1980s study of, 392–396 threat of success, 268–271 Hackers (film), 243–245, 535 Hackers (Levy), 235 hackers, philosophy, 207–230 of 1980s, 208–209 Abbie Hoffman, 229–230 birth of low-tech hacker, 382–384 bulletin board systems, 224–227 communications and bulletin
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Service Employees), 525 pharmacy computers, Wal-Mart, 714 phase-locked look (PLL) transmitter, radio piracy, 759–761 Phiber Optick case, 523, 526–527 philosophy. see hackers, philosophy phone cards, Afghan, 659 phone phreaking, 21st century, 659–680 ANI and Caller ID spoofing, 664–669 answering machine hacking, 659–662 backspoofing, 672–675
Free as in Freedom
by Sam Williams · 16 Nov 2015
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