A Hacker’s Manifesto: Blog 06

A Hacker Manifesto seems to contradict the very idea of how society perceives a hacker. In retrospect, the idea of being a hacker has always been seen to me as an unconventional or an unprofessional character of a person with computer skills. A hacker is someone who is overly learned in the field of computers but would rather exploit than make good use of their skills. But then, the manifesto modifies the idea I have of hackers. Never before have I thought of a hacker as someone who is tracking down some form of an approval. Since society does not approve of the very notion of a hacker, he or she settles for the approval of a computer. A computer is practically an extension of a hacker, he or she has the power to control every last aspect of it and have it respond the way he or she prefers. Of the narrowed down subjects, I thought the one of Information to be most interesting. The amount of information that travels around a single computer is rather overwhelming. Regardless of how massive the pool of information can be, all of it in some form or shape is important or useful. So it is in a way considerable to think that the hacker obtaining some form of information is in fact trying to gain access to something that should be on a whole accessible. But then, this technique contradicts the idea of privacy or the reasons why all information is not in actuality accessible to all. It is understandable to think that having all this information out there in the world serves a purpose to every individual that puts it out there. Therefore, a hacker interrupting this flow of purpose to each individual is “abstract” but wrong, in my opinion.