wayback

This vintage post titled the Hacker's Manifesto is from wayback in January 1986. It shows inside the mind of a young Hacker called The Mentor, written just after their arrest.  (Pic: Thiravudh Khoman)

"Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"... Damn kids. They're all alike.

But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him? I am a hacker, enter my world...