#hackers

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#capable #capacity #comparable #could #development

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map. ↗

— Larry Wall

#diverse #hackers #hard #just #map

Dear 2600: I think my girlfriend has been cheating on me and I wanted to know if I could get her password to Hotmail and AOL. I am so desperate to find out. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. And this is yet another popular category of letter we get. You say any help would be appreciated? Let’s find out if thats true. Do you think someone who is cheating on you might also be capable of having a mailbox you don’t know about? Do you think that even if you could get into the mailbox she uses that she would be discussing her deception there, especially if we live in a world where Hotmail and AOL passwords are so easily obtained? Finally, would you feel better if you invaded her privacy and found out that she was being totally honest with you? Whatever problems are going on in this relationship are not going to be solved with subterfuge. If you can’t communicate openly, there’s not much there to salvage. ↗

— Emmanuel Goldstein

#infidelity #relationships #communication

There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student. ↗

— Paul Graham

#hackers #humor #inspirational #painters #paul

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#get #hackers #how #i #install

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#became #began #civil #civil liberties #electronic

Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#any #cause #conduct #degree #depends

New security loopholes are constantly popping up because of wireless networking. The cat-and-mouse game between hackers and system administrators is still in full swing. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#because #between #constantly #full #game

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#fear #hackers #heart #intention #should

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#criminal #hackers #inadequacy #only #prosecution