Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.

I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..."

I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction.

Damn underachiever. They're all alike.

Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...

I am a hacker, enter my world...

Did you ever wonder whatmade him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?

But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker?

Damn kids. They're all alike.

"Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...

Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers.

Written on January 8, 1986

\/\The Conscience of a Hacker/\/ by +++The Mentor+++

The following was written shortly after my arrest...

After all, we're all alike.

You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all...

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto.

My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.

My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity.