Thursday, September 14, 2006

Workload getting heavier and I'm suffering from the lack of sleep. I could just fall asleep standing up. Have to remind myself not to fall asleep during assembly and in class. Downing mocha in an attempt not to fall asleep in class.

And yea, I would also like to thank one guy: "C". Not gonna state his real name. I was on the verge of deciding to let go of my one and only hobby: hacking (due to the workload). Until, he messaged me about it and yea, I also learnt some new things especially harware hacks and that really changed my mind about quitting. He was telling me about programs for ipods and stuff, and I was thinking, hey I'm really under utilising my computer and my programs! Yea...but my programming SUCKS...but he was like "but at least you got the basics of hacking". And I thought about another adult said to me before, that I know more about hacking than most adults do. So i thought: am I just gonna let all this stuff go just like that? No way. I'll maybe cut down on my hacking activities but I'll still keep check and go through it once in a while. Yeah...I'm still a script kiddie experimenting with the many different elements of hacking, programming and computer security but one thing is for sure: I'll keep learning whenever I have time.

Oh and one more thing that I had never taken seriously until he mentioned it to me: the social effects of hacking. Many people, who are not very tech savvy always get the wrong impression that all hackers are bad cause of the way th media potrays it to be. And these people become paranoid about what hackers can do and many thin they imagine are usually extremely difficult tasks to do on a computer! I would like to quote this from "Conscience of a HACKER by Mentor" :

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all...

Find the full poem at : http://www.geocities.com/carail666/index.html

So we hackers are forced to shut the fuck up about our hobby and discuss it in secret with fellow hackers. Is this what the world is all about? Oh yes....little smart asses try to fool people into giving them their passwords and yes many will be. You can find many of this sort of stuff on Geocities. Curious people are trying to learn, there you are fooling them for your own amusement. Hacker fooling hacker. Man eats man. Is this what it should be? Yes, fooling people is an element of hacking called social engineering ifi'm not mistaken. But then it is misused. The world is cold and harsh.



Jenhi || 12:09 AM