Hackers: Information Warefare
...Internet Has Hrown Immeasurably In The Past Few Years.
Along with it the so-called "hacker" community has grown and risen to a level
where it's less of a black market scenario and more of "A Current Affair"
scenario. Misconceptions as to what a hacker is and does run rampant in
everyone who thinks they understand what the Internet is after using it a few
times. In the next few pages I'm going to do my best to prove the true
definition of what a hacker is, how global economic electronic warfare ties into
it, background on the Internet, along with a plethora of scatological material
purely for your reading enjoyment. I will attempt to use the least technical
computer terms I can, but in order to make my point at times I have no choice.
There are many misconceptions, as to the definition, of what a hacker truly is,
in all my research this is the best definition I've found: Pretend your walking
down the street, the same street you have always walked down. One day, you see
a big wooden or metal box with wires coming out of it sitting on the sidewalk
where there had been none.
Many people won't even notice. Others might say, "Oh, a box on the street.". A
few might wonder what it does and then move on. The hacker, the true hacker,
will see the box, stop, examine it, wonder about it, and spend mental time
trying to figure it out. Given the proper circumstances, he might come back
later to look closely at the wiring, or even be so bold as to open the box. Not
maliciously, just out of curiosity. The hacker wants to know how things
work.(8)
Hackers truly are "America's Most Valuable Resource,"(4:264) as ex-CIA Robert
Steele has said. But if we don't stop screwing over our own countrymen, we will
never be looked at as anything more than common gutter trash. Hacking computers
for the sole purpose of collecting systems like space-age baseball cards is
stupid and...
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