how to hack: a guide


CHAPTER 5 How Not To Hack


How not to hack should now be quite obvious as we have covered the basics, it is simply the opposite of what we've told you to do. To aid you in your hacking, we suggest you avoid talking like these people (taken from the movie 'Hackers'):

PHREAK Yo. Check this out guys, this is insanely great, it's got a 28.8 BPS modem!
DADE Yeah? Display?
CEREAL Active matrix, man. A million psychedelic colors. Man, baby, sweet, ooo!
NIKON I want it.
PHREAK I want it to have my children!

DADE It has a killer refresh rate.
KATE P6 chip. Triple the speed of the Pentium.
DADE Yeah. It's not just the chip, it has a PCI bus! But you knew that.

PHREAK What are you, stoned or stupid? You don't hack a bank across state lines from your house, you'll get nailed by the FBI. Where are your brains, in your ass? Don't you know anything?
CEREAL Stupid, man. It's universally stupid.

PHREAK Look, you wanna be elite? You gotta do a righteous hack. None of this accidental shit.

Clearly they do not have a fucking clue, what they are talking about.




steven hawkins.
don't make fun of the man in the wheelchair, even though there are almost limitless jokes to be made in the tone of his computer generated voice, he is undoubtedly the most clever person on the face of this earth, respect.
also doing things like this won't get you any hacking respect, even though it is quite a beast of a machine.