Yahoo! Chat.....and misc other gripes
Hey all,
Earlier I was on Yahoo! Chat and encountered a very nasty little bastard that called himself xxphrackxx, which is obviously a lamer name because he couldn't come up with his own so he went with the very popular name of phrack which is, if you don't know, a hacker ezine that is widely distributed and can be found and www.phrack.org. So anyway, I was just sitting in the room talking to this one guy about IP addresses and xxphrackxx comes in and starts shooting his mouth off saying I don't know anything and whatever... bunch of looser BS. Anyway, I am not complaining to much because to let this guy bother me is pointless, instead I would like to share with those of you who will agree with me why this guy is obviously not a hacker.
xxphrackxx may know a thing or two about computers but that does not make him a hacker. It all actuallity you don't even need to know about computers to be a hacker, you just need to look at things a little differently. The thing that bothers me the most about this guy is he thinks that because he knows about network protocols, and programming that gives him the right to be rude to people and but into other peoples conversations. That just isn't right, and any hacker out there will agree with me. Being a hacker is about learning and sharing, not be mean and rude and blowing off people who just want to learn. Our community was developed because people could ask stupid questions and not be riticuled, within reason of course. None of us would know what we do today if it wasn't for the people who came before us and what they learned from the people before them, you may say, "No I read a book or a file and that is why I know this stuff," well I hate to break it to you but, SOMEONE ELSE WROTE THAT!!!!!! It is not like a computer sat down and scanned it's own system for vulnerabilities then wrote it all down for people to read, no a hacker wrote it.
Granted, most people will argue that I am missing a very important piece of the puzzle, people had to find those vulnerabilities in the first place, and they did it on their own right? Wrong! They had to learn how a system worked and what did what to find a vulnerability, and guess how they learned it, by reading what someone else wrote. Now I know this may just seem like angry ranting, but it's not. I am not angry and xxphrackxx for his rudeness, in fact I feel sorry for him because somewhere down the line he forgot what it is to be a hacker, a true hacker.
On a lighter(sorta) note, today I was trying to upgrade my work PC to SP2(don't ask). Anyway, I went through the process of backing all my data up, and downloading the patch. I started installing and about 45 minutes into the installation it tells me it cannot install because access was denied. Now my question is, ACCESS TO WHAT?!? It didn't give me any other information other than an alert window with the red circle symbol in it. Man I hate windows!! I wish I could just use Linux but my boss is an ancient computer guy, I mean ancient. He was programming in punch cards in the prime of his life so new technology scares him and I cannot get him to go otherwise. Luckily he has no idea about Knoppix or any of the other live cd distros of Linux so I am able to get away with using it sometimes.
Talk to you all later.
Kn1ghtl0rd
kn1ghtl0rd@hotmail.com
Earlier I was on Yahoo! Chat and encountered a very nasty little bastard that called himself xxphrackxx, which is obviously a lamer name because he couldn't come up with his own so he went with the very popular name of phrack which is, if you don't know, a hacker ezine that is widely distributed and can be found and www.phrack.org. So anyway, I was just sitting in the room talking to this one guy about IP addresses and xxphrackxx comes in and starts shooting his mouth off saying I don't know anything and whatever... bunch of looser BS. Anyway, I am not complaining to much because to let this guy bother me is pointless, instead I would like to share with those of you who will agree with me why this guy is obviously not a hacker.
xxphrackxx may know a thing or two about computers but that does not make him a hacker. It all actuallity you don't even need to know about computers to be a hacker, you just need to look at things a little differently. The thing that bothers me the most about this guy is he thinks that because he knows about network protocols, and programming that gives him the right to be rude to people and but into other peoples conversations. That just isn't right, and any hacker out there will agree with me. Being a hacker is about learning and sharing, not be mean and rude and blowing off people who just want to learn. Our community was developed because people could ask stupid questions and not be riticuled, within reason of course. None of us would know what we do today if it wasn't for the people who came before us and what they learned from the people before them, you may say, "No I read a book or a file and that is why I know this stuff," well I hate to break it to you but, SOMEONE ELSE WROTE THAT!!!!!! It is not like a computer sat down and scanned it's own system for vulnerabilities then wrote it all down for people to read, no a hacker wrote it.
Granted, most people will argue that I am missing a very important piece of the puzzle, people had to find those vulnerabilities in the first place, and they did it on their own right? Wrong! They had to learn how a system worked and what did what to find a vulnerability, and guess how they learned it, by reading what someone else wrote. Now I know this may just seem like angry ranting, but it's not. I am not angry and xxphrackxx for his rudeness, in fact I feel sorry for him because somewhere down the line he forgot what it is to be a hacker, a true hacker.
On a lighter(sorta) note, today I was trying to upgrade my work PC to SP2(don't ask). Anyway, I went through the process of backing all my data up, and downloading the patch. I started installing and about 45 minutes into the installation it tells me it cannot install because access was denied. Now my question is, ACCESS TO WHAT?!? It didn't give me any other information other than an alert window with the red circle symbol in it. Man I hate windows!! I wish I could just use Linux but my boss is an ancient computer guy, I mean ancient. He was programming in punch cards in the prime of his life so new technology scares him and I cannot get him to go otherwise. Luckily he has no idea about Knoppix or any of the other live cd distros of Linux so I am able to get away with using it sometimes.
Talk to you all later.
Kn1ghtl0rd
kn1ghtl0rd@hotmail.com
