From: xenon@yabbs
To: cosmos@yabbs
Subject: re: accounts
Date: Fri Nov  5 21:21:04 1993
what has happened to the world?  why do people keep posting such BS?  
there is a generation of people growing up who, beacuse of the portrayal 
of a "hacker" by the media, aspire to do nothing more than break into 
systems for their own gratification and, more importantly, gain the 
respect of their misguided peers by passing on the reports of their /<ewl, 
3l33t activities...gurujam's posts clearly reflect this sad mentality and 
it scares me that the numbers of these "hackers" are growing expotently 
every day.

im sure members of various governmental groups are more than happy to see 
people like this running rampart throughout the electronic community for 
it allowes them to fed this information directly to the media which does 
its job by printing horror stories to the world, full of technical errors 
which the media is so good at doing, so that every citizen lives in fear 
of thoe "crazy cyberpunk-kids."  this way, public support shifts to those 
"great men in uniform" who save their family from a world of "evil 
hacker-types."  yes, im sure members of such agencies, like the grand ol 
secret service, love being able to trample all over citizens 
constitutional rights in the name of justice...

why would this bbs be in possible jepordy because of gurujam's sayings 
here?  well, logically, it wouldnt at all!  just because i tell someone of 
a security holedoesnt make me a criminal, but add the word computer in 
there, and to the eyes of the close-minded public, it not only turns me 
into a criminal, but a extremly dangerous felon who deserves to be burned 
at the stake as soon as possible.

EDUCATION people!  guruham, it looks af if you have a legitimate internet 
account or two...USE THEM to LEARN!  grab the text files...any file you 
can and READ!  see what a hacker really is.  dont be swept into the 
romantic image of a hacker and become just another statistic on sum 
governmental chart!  yes, maybe the system sucks big time, but turn yer 
rebellion into something that will have a MUCH bigger impact on society.  
I can relate since i have a past which i am ashamed of, but i somehow 
survived and LEARNED from it.  i learned that the gratification and 
respect i gained from my peers right THEN is no match to the exilleration 
i will feel when i, along with a powerful underground, can CHANGE the 
system!

i am but i am but one person, who at this point knows very little.  what 
can i do?  learn humility and make valuable allys and feed from their 
brain...figure out whats wrong with the system.  when the time comes, if 
the underground is able to survive this injustice, and i hope to god it 
will, the results will be as potent as any orgasm...

anywayz, off the soapbok...
--> Xenon