294 DEAR HACKER
294 DEAR HACKER
Dear 2600:
I first want to say I love your magazine. Here is what happened. I was sitting in the airport waiting for my flight. I was reading your maga- zine, and then I looked up. This women was pointing me out to her husband. Next thing I knew, the husband is getting up and walking over to me. He stands over me and says, “All you little hackers should
be dragged out into the street and shot.” Well, I did not feel like start- ing anything with the man, so I just sat there and continued to read 2600. I just wanted to tell you about my little experience.
Fast Lover Houston, TX
At least they recognized the magazine. We must be doing better marketing than we thought!
Dear 2600: I’ve been reading your magazine for five years, and the information in
it has always been at the very least interesting. It’s taken me until now to figure out the true purpose of the magazine, or what I believe is its goal. If you take everything written in the magazine at face value, then it would seem that it is against the type of world that was described in 1984. From what I have deduced, 2600 Magazine is not for free speech, is not pro-hacker, and it supports the creation of a totalitarian regime. The magazine’s justification for printing information about various holes in different systems is that they should be fixed and can no longer be exploited. For instance, if the different Bells redesigned their payphone system every time someone found a way to make free calls, it would eventually get to the point where an operator would have to come onto the line to verify that the call was legal. However,
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publish an article on how to manipulate the operators into giving you free calls) and the cycle would continue until it would be impossible to make a phone call without a camera behind you making sure that you were paying for it. So therefore, does 2600 strive for a world that is like that of 1984? Emmanuel Goldstein in the end was created by Big Brother, and is probably its greatest asset.
The Propagandist Well, it only took twelve years for someone to figure it out.
Dear 2600:
I have been reading 2600 for some time and I find it to be a forum for snot-nose-right-wing-conservative-ditto-head-Republican vandals. I think it’s time that you put the tape on your Coke bottle glasses and reinsert your pocket protectors and slither back into your closets. You call yourselves freedom fighters? Freedom from what? Civilization? Law and order? Why are hackers portrayed as vandals and not Thomas Jefferson or George Washington? America is a great place to live and provides freedoms to all its citizens including neo-Nazis, the KKK, hackers, Rush Limbaugh, and close-minded Republicans. Somewhere along the way, a few boneheads started a rumor that certain rights and freedoms should not apply to anyone but them. Wrong again! The “right” to vandalize other people’s property is not found in the Bill of Rights. The “right” to steal from someone is not found in the Bill of Rights. Need I go on or do you get the idea, bonehead!
I will continue to read your magazine and watch how far your select group of self righteous gang of vandals will go to prove that Forrest Gump is real and alive in cyberspace. If I may diverge from a civil tone to the type of vocabulary I see in the Letters to the Editor, I will tell you that your f**kin rag is the kind of sh*t that Hitler puked at his sh*ttheads and look at the f*ckin mess he got into. Get a damn life, dick face and stop all this f*ckin around. I hope you are enjoying the abuse... because I enjoy giving it. This is not hate mail nor a threat. It is my opinion and I am exercising my right to express myself. All