The Hacker Manifesto (1986)

The Conscience of a Hacker, also called the Hacker Manifesto, was published in 1986. Loyd Blankenship aka The Mentor wrote it after his arrest and it got picked up by Phrack, and achieved fame since then. (Text republished here courtesy of Phrack.)

Another one got caught today, it’s all over the papers. “Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal”, “Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering”...
Damn kids. They’re all alike.

But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950’s technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?
I am a hacker, enter my world...
Mine is a world that begins with school... I’m smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...
Damn underachiever. They’re all alike.

I’m in junior high or high school. I’ve listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. “No, Ms. Smith, I didn’t show my work. I did it in my head...”
Damn kid. Probably copied it. They’re all alike.

I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it’s because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn’t like me...
Or feels threatened by me...
Or thinks I’m a smart ass...
Or doesn’t like teaching and shouldn’t be here...
Damn kid. All he does is play games. They’re all alike.

And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict’s veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found.

“This is it... this is where I belong...”
I know everyone here... even if I’ve never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...
Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They’re all alike...

You bet your ass we’re all alike... we’ve been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We’ve been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.

This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn’t run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it’s for our own good, yet we’re the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can’t stop us all... after all, we’re all alike.

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Atlas Internet Search infrastructure

This is a brief overview of a large vision: enabling search to become
a part of the Internet's infrastructure. Building on Atlas as an
open protocol, search can become a fully distributed and
interoperable world-wide community. All of the participants can
interact openly and in any role where they believe they can add value
to the network.

A search engine can be constructed from many independent entities
serving different roles instead of one monolithic system. These
entities are exchanging aggregate information, or knowledge, and can
decide with whom they want to work with. To design this working
economy based on knowledge, there must be balance between these
various entities. Each actor must have incentive to act both for
their own benefit and for the benefit of the whole, and enough
information to make and validate those decisions. Reputations and
relationships are the essential fabric of Atlas, just as they are in
a real-world free market.

There are three primary roles within Atlas:

Factory - Responsible to the content.
Collector - Responsible to the keyword.
Broker - Responsible to the searcher.

Each of these actors must interact with the others to complete any
search request. Any two roles could be performed by a single entity
(whereas if all three are performed by one entity, the result would
be a traditional, monolithic search engine).

A Factory is akin to a crawler in today's search engines. An Atlas
Factory must fetch and process the content as intelligently as
possible, performing analysis (such as Natural Language Processing)
and normalizing it into distinct units. A Factory shares its highly
refined and processed output with one or more Collectors based on who
they believe is best utilizing it.

A Collector absorbs and indexes output from one or more Factories,
with one primary goal: ranking. An Atlas Collector must provide the
most intelligent ranking and relationship analysis possible. A
Collector has to compete for the output of a Factory, as well as
compete to provide the best ranking quality for Brokers.

A Broker must provide a searcher with the best possible results. It
does so by combining diverse ranking results from Collectors and also
by retrieving content from the original Factories. This last step, a
Broker interacting with a Factory, is critical to maintaining a
balanced ecosystem. All Factories must be aware of and approve how
their results are being used and by whom.

Reputation and reward is bi-directional between all parties (Factory-
Collector, Collector-Broker, and Broker-Factory). Each entity may
choose to interact on principle (free, Commons), attribution (results
provided by), or commercially (as a paid service), the Atlas protocol
is purely a facilitator and does not restrict how the relationships
between any entities are formed. In considering these motives for
the various entities, it's likely that the free-based networks will
tend to become more specialized, commercial ones will compete on
quality, and attribution based networks will mature in both directions.

This simple yet powerful division of roles, responsibilities, and
relationships will result in a distributed economic foundation for an
Internet Search Infrastructure. The wire protocol and further
definition of the interactions between these entities is openly
evolving, anyone interested is welcomed to join the discussions and
see the initial proposals at http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/
atlas-l over the coming weeks.

Thanks, looking forward to a radically different search ecosystem in
the coming years :)

Jer

Bientôt l'Iphone d'Apple !

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Nouvelle tendance dans la recherche sur Internet

Est-ce le début de la fin de l'hégémonie de Google ?

Il est, à mon avis, trop tôt pour répondre à cette question, mais il apparait que de nouvelles façons de rechercher et de catégoriser l'information présente sur les autoroutes de l'information commencent à pointer le bout de leur nez. Il s'agit principalement de deux nouveaux sites américains TallStreet et Mahalo qui permettent aux utilisateurs de noter eux-même la qualité des resultats de recherche fournis par ces sites selon le principe de "social recommandation" cher à de très nombreux sites Web 2.0 tels que Flickr ou Digg.

Esperons que cette tendance dépasse le simple effet de mode et contribue ainsi à l'amelioration générale de la qualité et la pertinence de la recherche d'information sur Internet. En effet, comme la concurrence est la meilleure des emulations, on peut penser que Google devra soit s'aligner au sein de son propre reseau, soit racheter ces entreprises comme il l'a fait avec Youtube.

Nous remarquerons simplement ici que le compte Google permettant d'accèder à l'ensemble des services Google (Analytics, GMail, Adsense, Google Toolbar etc...) a certainement le même objectif (non avoué par contre) de qualification et de validation des resultats de recherche pertinents pour le géant de Mountain View, à l'instar de la Google Toolbar qui permet déjà au descendant de BackRub d'obtenir des informations sur le comportement des internautes (cf l'explication d'Olivier Andrieu sur les Google Sitelinks)


Elcantar

PhpInfo() function : the first function of PHP

Hi,

In fact fact, we must use it before doing anything with PHP.

So the magic function can be found here or here

Even at this age of Web 2.0 ;-)

So I can say that PHP rules !

Cheers

What is Web 2.0 ?

The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the web. Many people concluded that the web was overhyped, when in fact bubbles and consequent shakeouts appear to be a common feature of all technological revolutions. Shakeouts typically mark the point at which an ascendant technology is ready to take its place at center stage. The pretenders are given the bum's rush, the real success stories show their strength, and there begins to be an understanding of what separates one from the other.

The concept of "Web 2.0" began with a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive International. Dale Dougherty, web pioneer and O'Reilly VP, noted that far from having "crashed", the web was more important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites popping up with surprising regularity. What's more, the companies that had survived the collapse seemed to have some things in common. Could it be that the dot-com collapse marked some kind of turning point for the web, such that a call to action such as "Web 2.0" might make sense? We agreed that it did, and so the Web 2.0 Conference was born.

In the year and a half since, the term "Web 2.0" has clearly taken hold, with more than 9.5 million citations in Google. But there's still a huge amount of disagreement about just what Web 2.0 means, with some people decrying it as a meaningless marketing buzzword, and others accepting it as the new conventional wisdom.

This article is an attempt to clarify just what we mean by Web 2.0.

In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example:

Web 1.0		Web 2.0
DoubleClick	-->	Google AdSense
Ofoto	-->	Flickr
Akamai	-->	BitTorrent
mp3.com	-->	Napster
Britannica Online	-->	Wikipedia
personal websites	-->	blogging
evite	-->	upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation	-->	search engine optimization
page views	-->	cost per click
screen scraping	-->	web services
publishing	-->	participation
content management systems	-->	wikis
directories (taxonomy)	-->	tagging ("folksonomy")
stickiness	-->	syndication

The list went on and on. But what was it that made us identify one application or approach as "Web 1.0" and another as "Web 2.0"? (The question is particularly urgent because the Web 2.0 meme has become so widespread that companies are now pasting it on as a marketing buzzword, with no real understanding of just what it means. The question is particularly difficult because many of those buzzword-addicted startups are definitely not Web 2.0, while some of the applications we identified as Web 2.0, like Napster and BitTorrent, are not even properly web applications!) We began trying to tease out the principles that are demonstrated in one way or another by the success stories of web 1.0 and by the most interesting of the new applications.

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Le meilleur commentaire que j'ai lu sur le web

Voici un commentaire qu'un utilisateur m'a laissé suite à un post que j'ai envoyé sur Scoopeo, du grand art !!!

Cher M. Elcantar,

Vous venez par ce scoop d'enfreindre la loi DADVSI. Loi conçue et développée par M. Sarkozy par l'entremise de M. Donnedieu de Vabres (aka "la marionnette") pour le bien et la diversité de l'industrie culturelle mondiale. Le tarif pour vous est dors et déjà connu. Il sera de 30 000 euros et 6 mois de prison pour avoir, par ce scoop, fournit une information de "nature à permettre de contourner un moyen technique de protection".

Mais n'espérez pas une quelconque protection venant d'Internet. En effet, sachez que grâce à la LCEN (Loi de Confiance pour l'Economie Numérique) de M. Sarkozy, les responsables du site SCOOPEO doivent être en mesure de nous fournir votre adresse IP qu'ils auront pris soin, comme la loi les y obligent, de conserver pendant 1 an. De même pour votre fournisseur d'Accès Internet qui nous fournira ainsi votre nom et adresse. Ainsi n'espérez pas échapper au bras de la justice !!

A partir de là, comme nous y autorise la "loi de sécurité intérieur" de M. Sarkozy, et en attendant tout jugement, vous serez dans l'obligation de nous fournir un peu de salive pour que nous puissions établir votre fiche génétique personnalisée. Fiche qui sera conservée même si vous n'êtes pas jugé coupable. Car il n'y a jamais de fumée sans feu, vous le savez bien...

Cependant nous tenons à vous dire que nous regrettons sincèrement cette situation. Car si M. Sarkozy était déjà au pouvoir, nous aurions pu, grâce à une étude génétique précoce, prévoir et ainsi vous empêcher de commettre cet odieux crime en détectant, à votre naissance, votre tendance innée au contournement des Moyens Techniques de Protection.

Un grand merci à ulhume pour son sens de l'humour politiquement incorrect, certes, mais incontestablement drôle !!!