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Hacker Manifesto or The Conscience of a Real Hacker

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This post is only a quote of The Hacker Manifesto from SoldierX on 23 Sept 2003.

It happened again today. Another one sold out, sacrificing their dreams to the corporate security machine.

Damn Whitehats, no one believes in a cause anymore.

Another bug was released today to the security mailing lists.

Damn Whitehats, they know not what they do.

Another potential computer genius was relegated to an existence of nothing more than than a 9-5 cubicle-dwelling promotional tool.

Damn Whitehats, putting money before discovery.

Another family was ravaged by corporations and governments bent on instituting control over individuality, monitoring every action…

Another kid was sentenced today for searching for a way to understand the world. Convicted and imprisoned, not because of what he did, but because of what others thought he could do.

Damn Whitehats – Fear keeps them in business.

The public, believing anything it hears from “reputed experts”. Screaming for blood. Looking for something to blame for their lost hope. Their lost ability to seek out new knowledge. Fear consumes them. They cannot let go of their uncertainty and doubt because there is no meaning. They seek to destroy explorers, outlaws, curiosity seekers because they are told too. They are told these people that seek information are evil. Individuality is evil. Judgment should be made based upon a moral standard set in conformity rather than resistance. Lives are ruined in the name of corporate profit and information is hoarded as a commodity.

Damn Whitehats, you were once like us.

I was a Whitehat. I had an awakening. I saw the security industry for what is really is. I saw the corruption, the lies, the deceit, the extortion of protection money in the form of subscription services and snake-oil security consultants.

I wanted to know, I wanted to understand, I wanted to go further then the rest. I never want to be held down by contracts and agreements.

You say I should grow up. You say I should find better things to do with my time. You say I should put my talent to better use. You’re saying I should fall in line with the other zombies and forget everything I believe in and shun those with my drive, my curiosity, tell them it’s not worth it, deny them of the greatest journey they will ever experience in their lives.

I am not a Blackhat. The term is insulting, it implies I am the opposite of you. You think i seek to defeat security, when I seek something greater. I will write exploits, travel through networks, explore where you are afraid to go. I will not put myself in the spotlight and release destructive tools to the public to attract business. I will not feed the fear and hysteria created by the security industry to increase stock prices. I can, and will, code and hack and find out everything I can for the same reasons I did years ago.

I am a Hacker, don’t try to understand me, you lost all hope of that when you crossed the line. You fail to see the lies and utter simplicity behind the computer security industry. Once, you may have shared my ideals. You fail to see the fact that security is a maintenance job. You’ve given up hope for something better. You fail to see yourself as worthless, fueling an industry whose cumulative result is nothing. I don’t hate you, I don’t even really care about you – If you try to stop me, you will fail, because I do this out of love — you do it for money.

This is our world now.. the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt cheap if it wasn’t run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore… and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge… and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias… and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat and lie to us and try to make us believe it is for our own good, yet we’re the criminals.

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 can’t stop me, and you certainly can’t stop us all.

Rate my network diagram

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http://www.ratemynetworkdiagram.com is a site were you can see what others have done with their network, upload your own network and rate the networks.

Seems to me like a very nice thing.

Here’s a sample from the site:

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It’s the mmkholy site member’s diagram.

Of course there are sections like: big networks, home network etc so everyone has a place here.

Just enjoy it.

Office 2010 Home & Business Offline installer

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I needed such an offline installer for the Office 2010 package and all I was getting was the Office click to Run installer (grrrrrr). Probably they were thinking that’s what everybody needs. So the first option you get is this Office click to Run that will install the office pack on your computer almost completely unattended.

Finally I got to the offline installer link (it took a while, so you’re sparred of the annoyance following the link below), so here it is:

https://www7.buyoffice.microsoft.com/usa/downloader.aspx?local=true&cache=181419843&receipt_id=561049834&culture=en-us

Gamers Bill of Rights

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Well this is it 🙂

Check them out here: http://www.gamersbillofrights.com/

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Some things are never going to happen.

These I like the most:

7. Gamers have the right to re-download the latest version of the games they purchase.

That means if I bought SC2 now I shouldn’t have to buy it again if I want to play the protoss or zerg campaigns that will appear in the future.

8. Gamers have the right to use their games without being inconvenienced due to copy protection or digital rights management.

Meaning no need for f*****g DVD your DVD Unit or other nice checks that burry your game performance in the most interesting moments…

9. Gamers shall have the right to play single player games without requiring an Internet connection.

All this annoying protections sometimes help us use a pirated copy of the game; you figure out why.

Off course there will always be some people who will use ONLY pirated copies. But so is in life: some never buy tickets for travelling with the bus, some never learn in school, some never work when at work and so on…

vmware ESXi SSH

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Since I run in our network a few ESXi hosts and have some performance problems so to troubleshoot further I needed more control over the ESXi host than the vmSphere Client provides. That meant access to the console of the ESXi host by means of SSH for easier management. So I found a great article on vmware support forums:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003677

As a digest of that to enable SSH on a ESXi host you’ll have to:

1. Login on the ESXi host console (that ugly yellow interface)

2. Press ALT+F1 .

3. Enter: unsupported. No text will appear on the window.

4.  Enter the password for the root user.

5. Type vi /etc/inetd.conf

6. Uncomment (delete the #) from the lines containing ssh.

7. Press “:wq!” to save inetd.conf .

8. Restart the management service: “/sbin/services.sh restart”

9. Restart inetd : kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`

Now you can connect to the ESXi host by SSH .

Littany Against Fear – Benne Gesserit – Dune – Frank Herbert

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Littany against fear incatation by Bene Gesserit from Dune was something that I liked a lot. So here it is.

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain

I hope you won’t need to use it.