2600: The Hacker Quarterly Anonymous (group) Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is a loosely associated international network of activist and hacktivist entities. A website nominally associated with the group describes it as "an internet gathering" with "a very loose and decentralized command structure that operates on ideas rather than directives". The group became known for a series of well-publicized publicity stunts and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government, religious, and corporate websites. Anonymous originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain.[3][4] Anonymous members (known as "Anons") can be distinguished in public by the wearing of stylised Guy Fawkes masks.[5] In its early form, the concept was adopted by a decentralized online community acting anonymously in a coordinated manner, usually toward a loosely self-agreed goal, and primarily focused on entertainment, or "lulz".
How To Understand Programs for Password Hacking | How To Do Things Password hacking may sound like an ominous thing to most people, who also believe that someone who may know how to do it can't possibly be up to any good. On the contrary, it can actually be most useful for you or potential clients. You wouldn't know when you would need to hack your own email account in case you forgot your password, or an important client needs your help to crack a program password. Dictionary attacks. Password hacking is still a skill that not everyone can do. Chaos Computer Club The CCC describes itself as "a galactic community of life forms, independent of age, sex, race or societal orientation, which strives across borders for freedom of information...." In general, the CCC advocates more transparency in government, freedom of information, and the human right to communication. Supporting the principles of the hacker ethic, the club also fights for free universal access to computers and technological infrastructure.[2] History[edit] The CCC was founded in Berlin on September 12, 1981 at a table which had previously belonged to the Kommune 1 in the rooms of the newspaper die tageszeitung by Wau Holland and others in anticipation of the prominent role that information technology would play in the way people live and communicate. The CCC became world famous when they drew public attention to the security flaws of the German Bildschirmtext computer network by causing it to debit DM 134,000 in a Hamburg bank in favor of the club. Staatstrojaner[edit] Events[edit]
Welcome to freshmeat.net | freshmeat.net Choose Your Neighborhood 1 Pick Your Neighborhood 2 Introduce Yourself 3 Meet Your Neighbors Why isn’t my neighborhood showing up? We are constantly working to expand and improve our list of neighborhoods, but there are still some neighborhoods we don’t know about. Why are you calling my city/town/village/hamlet/commune a “neighborhood”? The word “neighborhood” means different things to different people, and a lot of that depends on where you live. I don’t live in the US. Blockboard is currently only available in the US, but we plan to expand to cover other countries soon! neighborhood data from Zillow and Geonames
Master Foo and the Ten Thousand Lines Master Foo once said to a visiting programmer: “There is more Unix-nature in one line of shell script than there is in ten thousand lines of C.” The programmer, who was very proud of his mastery of C, said: “How can this be? C is the language in which the very kernel of Unix is implemented!” Master Foo replied: “That is so. Nevertheless, there is more Unix-nature in one line of shell script than there is in ten thousand lines of C.” The programmer grew distressed. Master Foo replied: “All that you say is true. The programmer scoffed at Master Foo and rose to depart. The programmer muttered through his beard, contemplating what Nubi had written. “And how many hours would you require to implement and debug that C program?” “Many,” admitted the visiting programmer. “And who better understands the Unix-nature?” Upon hearing this, the programmer was enlightened.
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way In the world of hackers, the kind of answers you get to your technical questions depends as much on the way you ask the questions as on the difficulty of developing the answer. This guide will teach you how to ask questions in a way more likely to get you a satisfactory answer. Now that use of open source has become widespread, you can often get as good answers from other, more experienced users as from hackers. The first thing to understand is that hackers actually like hard problems and good, thought-provoking questions about them. Despite this, hackers have a reputation for meeting simple questions with what looks like hostility or arrogance. What we are, unapologetically, is hostile to people who seem to be unwilling to think or to do their own homework before asking questions. We realize that there are many people who just want to use the software we write, and who have no interest in learning technical details. We're (largely) volunteers. (Improvements to this guide are welcome.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar This directory gives you access to almost all of the contents of my evolving book, The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Enjoy — but be aware that I have sold O'Reilly the exclusive commercial printing rights. The papers composing this book (like their topic) are still evolving as I get more feedback. I made extensive revisions and additions for the first edition of the book The Cathedral and the Bazaar, and expect to continue adding and revising in future editions. Even if you've heard me do the stand-up version, you may want to reread it. These papers are not `finished', and may never be. If you like these papers, you will probably also enjoy my How To Become A Hacker FAQ (also in the book). Here's the XHTML. My thumbnail sketch of the history of the hacker culture, maintained since about 1992. Here's the XHTML. Translations Here's the XHTML. You can download RealAudio recordings of the stand-up version of this talk from the Kongress (about the first 30 seconds is missing). Forrest J.
Undergraduation March 2005 (Parts of this essay began as replies to students who wrote to me with questions.) Recently I've had several emails from computer science undergrads asking what to do in college. Hacking What should you do in college to become a good hacker? The way to be good at programming is to work (a) a lot (b) on hard problems. Odds are this project won't be a class assignment. Another way to be good at programming is to find other people who are good at it, and learn what they know. Some of the smartest people around you are professors. Don't be put off if they say no. Beware, because although most professors are smart, not all of them work on interesting stuff. I never worked as a research assistant, so I feel a bit dishonest recommending that route. Whatever the disadvantages of working by yourself, the advantage is that the project is all your own. In your own projects you don't have to worry about novelty (as professors do) or profitability (as businesses do). Math Everything Jobs Notes
Great Hackers July 2004 (This essay is derived from a talk at Oscon 2004.) A few months ago I finished a new book, and in reviews I keep noticing words like "provocative'' and "controversial.'' To say nothing of "idiotic.'' I didn't mean to make the book controversial. Edisons There's no controversy about which idea is most controversial: the suggestion that variation in wealth might not be as big a problem as we think. I didn't say in the book that variation in wealth was in itself a good thing. Variation in wealth can be a sign of variation in productivity. In a low-tech society you don't see much variation in productivity. That's not a new idea. Productivity varies in any field, but there are few in which it varies so much. If variation in productivity increases with technology, then the contribution of the most productive individuals will not only be disproportionately large, but will actually grow with time. More than Money Great programmers are sometimes said to be indifferent to money. Interesting