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Humanity is Lost.

There is no religious belief which can set us on the right path.

Neither Judaism, nor Islam have what it takes to bring humanity from the darkness.

Do you think we live in an enlightened world?

You would be wrong in that assumption.

Understand that I am like you.

My blood is red, just like yours.

I am a creature of the Earth, just like you.

Yet unlike those of you who put your faith in religion.

I mistakenly put my faith into mankind.

We have nobody but ourselves to fight with.

Which is the only legitimate answer to why we fight with each other in the first place.

Some people and business’ make so much money, that it makes no sense to have that much at all.

We strive to live in a world where the only currency is the one that benefits an individual only.

Whats wrong with a civilization which thrives off the progress and enrichment of humanity?

Right now, we could not represent ourselves as a worldwide race of sentient beings.

Because the majority of people are not capable of seeing past simple differences.

Religion, Racism, and Sexism shows just how weak the human species is.

We are fully capable of accomplishing great feats of unimaginable ingenuity

Yet religion, racism and sexism keep us in a state of separate primitive societies.

Always fighting with each other.

An estimated 7 billion people on Earth yet we still allow people to starve.

We still allow people to be uneducated.

We fight wars with each other, kill each other, over something we call god.

The majority of us lack any regard for the planet which bears us with life.

We are passionate, as humans, about a wide array of different things.

But when, as a whole, will we ever be passionate about humanity.

About progressing our species.

We always talk about providing better for our children and beyond.

Why is that only a dream?

As a child of people who wanted such things, I see nothing of the world being better, or safer.

I once learned a lesson from a life simulation of evolution.

It was easy to be a predator. It was easy to conquer.

There was always one constant – regardless of the path you chose.

It was either kill or be killed.

Human kind is beyond conquering planet Earth.

We only have ourselves to fight with.

And while we fight with ourselves, we will ultimately destroy ourselves in the process.

Though it may not all be a loss

For I am a human for humanity.

I love language. Not enough to learn to speak 100 languages, but I love written text. My physical book collection consists of over 100 books. I have books ranging from the occult, deep theology, right down to TCP/IP and SQL. I love old books. Included in my collection is a leather bound edition of Ralph Waldo Emmerson’s Nature, and a Dictionary and Cyclopedia of Freemasonry dated 1858. You don’t even want to know the size of my digital text and book collection, but I had to buy a sizable external drive when it started taking up to much space.

This post is not about the books of my own collection, however.

It’ about The Codex Gigas(Giant Book) or The Devils Bible. This text is reputed to be one of the largest surviving European manuscripts dating back to medieval times. The author of the text is unknown and an inscription within the text states i was pawned to a Monastary in 1295. A popular legend about the book states it was written by one person, with the help of the devil because of it’s enormous size.

Here is the link to the Official Website of the Codex Gigas, where you can look deeper into the book.

I found this recently, and found it to be both inspiring and worth a post.  Tim O’Reilly says it all about hackers here in this video, and makes a good point about what makes somone a hacker.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFbahNBnBpQ[/youtube]

I’ve heard a lot of people talk about how smart the Mayans were and how their calendar ends December 21 2012 and we’re all gonna die…  I just read an awesome article completely debunking it.

Mayan Apocalypse, 2012 (Great Moments in Science, ABC Science)

This article basically says that the Mayan calendar is written out in a sequence of numbers that reminds me of an IP address:

0.0.0.0.1

It is written in a base twenty system with five placeholders, meaning each of the five sections range from 0-19.  The supposed apocalyptic date will read 13.0.0.0.0, not what logic would dictate the ‘end’ should be according to their numbering system (19.19.19.19.19).

Websites like 2012endofdays.org say things like “They also had an incredible understanding of time and space.  Various calendars were in use to track time in linear progressions within cycles.”

Jump over to wikipedia and you’ll read things like “The end of the Calendar Round was a period of unrest and bad luck among the Maya, as they waited in expectation to see if the gods would grant them another cycle of 52 years.”

and

“The Maya practiced human sacrifice. In some Maya rituals people were killed by having their arms and legs held while a priest cut the person’s chest open and tore out his heart as an offering. This is depicted on ancient objects such as pictorial texts, known as codices (singular: codex). It is believed that children were often offered as sacrificial victims because they were believed to be pure.”

Congratulations to everyone for telling me about and believing a half-assed end of days prophecy based around an ancient civilization that not only largely collapsed over a thousand years ago, but that killed children and worshiped an entity that can literally be translated as “Corn God”. Don’t believe me?

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I have read many a discussion in forums where one would ask, “How do I become a hacker?” What would normally follow is a long discussion of programming languages that one would need to learn to become such a hacker.
What a lot of newbies do not realize or may not be aware is what exactly is the definition of a hacker. The term, “hacker” may have nothing to do with penetrating firewalls, defacing websites, and the such. To some one it may just mean getting the comuter to do what you want it to do.

Now I do not believe that every newbie out there is thinking of becoming such a hacker. I do not belive that what they are asking is how to become a nerd with no life who is going to spend the rest of his or her life behind computers working for as a computer security analist at some company.

One does not really need directions on how to become a geek. All you need to do is to sit all day in your room and sit behind the comp.

I can understand the real hackers. They are only explaining what the person is aksing for but that is not what he or she wants to hear.

So here in this article I am going to explain on how one becomes a hacker…er cracker. It is very important that we do not confuse the two words.

I am going to assume that the reader already knows the difference between the two. So I am not going to explain what it means to be a hacker or a cracker. Google is there to help you with that!

I am writing this article in order to educate others as well to express my oppinion. The later of which I am going to do towards the end.

Like I have said one of the things that have prompted me to write this was the some times tedious disscussions on hacker boards on how to become a hacker. What I believe these newbies should be asking is how to become a cracker. The term it sels has a bit of negative conotations. The word hacker is which is widely misused has more of a possitive meaning as opposed to the word hacker. So I believe people rather use the last with out really understanding its meaning.

Of course you do not want to come to a forum and ask people on how to become a criminal. No one is really going to help you out with that. Unless you know for sure there are load unethical people on that board. Because a cracker in essence is a criminal. A cyber criminal but a criminal never theles.
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Well fuck, today…no, not today but recently, I have noticed a huge transparency in the way the internet is being run. What? ….No one runs the internet? Fuck that, someone sure does. As technology progresses, the ability to monitor EVERYTHING is more and more feasible every single day and for all we know..okay some of us do..we could already have everyday operations monitored without us knowing. Everything is set up right now, in a way, so that a person…people..organization..business…fuck, whatever you want to call ‘it’, could infact do exactly that – monitor the shit out of us. Today, it was announced that google must hand over their entire database of user generated information (think videos viewed, search terms ..etc) and hand it to A BIG FUCKING BUISNESS. Don’t get me wrong, I think google is half evil itself the way it`s set up – they can also abuse their power and they are attaining more and more power every day where it`s almost to the point it’s scary…but this? The court just handed the information over, the very court which is supposed to protect our rights – now they can see how many times I searched for videos of Janet Jacksons tit being exposed at the super bowl like 5 years ago. (that was a joke, and it was really disgusting..but I did unfortunately see it..and probably on youtube..maybe I can check the logs and see…because it is available.)

Anyway, point being is FUCK BIG BUSINESS and QUIT FUCKING MONITORING ME.

Now it’s time to think of more methods to circumvent aforementioned monitoring. I will keep you posted on any findings.

Oh PS..what really fucking shocked me is the fact that on the BBC the most viewed article in North America was about a fucking dude who had a baby – stupid fucked up people, keep the genitals you where born with – you will not get attention from me. Point being, is this HUGE peice of news, which people seem to disregard is fucking…..HUGE…and it`s being ignored for this other piece of shit human being who will inevitable produce a fucked up kid. I hope the kids first words are “fuck transvestites, internet freedom is more important”.

Have a good day, I am not.

I agree, in part, with Grym on some stances he takes with regards to the ‘white hat’ hacker ethic. However, one can draw a parallel between the saying “All a good man must do for evil to previal, is nothing” (or one of the various other forms, of the same meaning) and the aforementioned, hacker ethic.

What I am getting at is, if you play by the straight – the “White Hat” creed, evil will indeed prevail. I think it is not only right, but also necessary that these same ‘white hats’ do NOT always play by the law. You are indeed right, if the white hat hacker does not stand for himself, no one will..that is exactly my point. You cannot play white hat, bake the cake and eat it too – you must change colors and protect the domain that is yours, the internet. Do not sell out for money, do not give up because the man says you ‘cannot do that’ – learn and prosper, do what it takes. The internet is ours, we must keep it.

Do what is necessary, if you must break a law to bring justice to someone – do it. Law is only a constraint of freedom and one must only give up the freedom that is necessary for their own protection. Must I give up my privacy for my own protection? No!

The root of my rant is that one must not be passive to what is around them, if one is, one has already lost.

Be free, break the law that constrains your freedom for your own ‘protection’ (ahem!) and then prosper!

Recently, while waiting to go to trig class, I stood wearing a shirt that identified me as a hacker.  Being a white hat, this has never bothered me.  Some other student asked me, “Are you a Hacker?” Shrugging, I said yes.  He told me about his friends that had nice stereo systems that they had gotten from hacking.  Trying not to talk about the ethics about hackings (or throw Schmooballs), I told him that I’d never gotten money from hacking.  He looked at me like I must be a n00b.This got me to thinking about how there just may be no place for White Hats in this Brave New World of ours.  Being the Senior Administrator at Cheer10s.com, I read about Crackers and Black Hats every day.  I’m not sure sometimes if there are no good guys anymore or if they just don’t make good press.  I do my best to only use the word ‘Hacker’ in a good light.  And I will continue to do that as long as I feel it is the right thing to do.

Before Notacon 5, a friend of mine got a one word response from a bystander for the word ‘Hacker’. The response: ‘dirtbag’.  My friend asked the publisher of a well known hacker magazine what he thought about this when trying to get an interview with this publisher.  The publisher thought enough of it to say “we’ll have to change that” but not enough of it to grant an interview (and interrupt a drinking competition with an empty wine bottle).

The point is, if the White Hats won’t stand for themselves, no one else will.