- Apr 2018
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logicmag.io logicmag.io
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they are imagining a world that’s completely leveled, in which hierarchy has been dissolved. They’re imagining a world that’s fundamentally without politics.
they may have imagined this but it certainly isnt the case anymore - everywhere on the internet is full of politics and hierarchy
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- Feb 2018
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www.lospadres.info www.lospadres.info
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certain phone phreaks discovered that if two people from anywhere in the country dial those two consecutive numbers they can talk together just as if one had called the other's number, with no charge to either of them, of course.
do they have to dial them at the exact same time? or just wait until the other dials it too?
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with two cassette recorders they can put together a series of phone numbers by switching back and forth from number to number. Any idiot in the country with a cheap cassette recorder can make all the free calls he wants."
is this actually something people do? or was this kept secret?
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They both agree the circuits must have been busy, and criticize the Paris telephone system.
This is so interesting to me. I didn't know he could get in touch with her so often just through hacking
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Now all I have to do is punch out the London area code which is 1, and dial up the pay phone. Here, listen, I've got a ring now."
This makes it seem so easy. They know exactly what to punch out and who they will be talking to. I wouldn't think someone in London would actually pick up the public phone. Does it have to do with luck and skill?
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www.paulgraham.com www.paulgraham.com
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Universities and research labs force hackers to be scientists, and companies force them to be engineers.
I've never really thought about it like this... Is this why people have so many different connotations for hackers? (since they all are taught in such different ways)
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We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language where you have to sit with a teacup of types balanced on your knee and make polite conversation with a strict old aunt of a compiler.
This statement immediately stood out to me. It is impossible to not mess up as a maker. I think the sole way to succeed is to "scribble and smudge and smear" because it allows you to learn from yourself and your mistakes. I think it is impossible to be creative if you have to be so polite and steady with your inventions.
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I think hackers just have to resign themselves to having a large random component in their reputations. In this they are no different from other makers. In fact, they're lucky by comparison.
This makes me think that hackers are so hard to understand if you do not understand hacking itself. People enjoy the study and idea of hacking (like myself) but do not actually know it's component. I think painters and hackers and other "makers" are alike because they do not fuel their creations based off of their reputations.
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- Jan 2018
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catb.org catb.org
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You also have to develop a kind of faith in your own learning capacity — a belief that even though you may not know all of what you need to solve a problem, if you tackle just a piece of it and learn from that, you'll learn enough to solve the next piece — and so on, until you're done.
This quote exaggerates the need for almost every hobby or career - in order to succeed in life, it is important that you continue to push yourself even if you don't know where you're headed. Hackers are people who need to find bits and pieces within the system themselves that aren't already laid out in front of them.
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Real hackers mostly think crackers are lazy, irresponsible, and not very bright, and object that being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker any more than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.
This really highlighted how people differentiate between a "cracker" and a "hacker". I know that some people call themselves a hacker because they are able to beat the system but I agree that this doesn't make them an actual hacker because they aren't solving any problems; instead, they are just making more.
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