The Ultimate Hacker
			       by: Sub-Thought
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	The underground computer scene, as it has become to be known, 
is filled with a mix of many people. Younger users usually like trading 
illegal software (couriering) or drawing ansi pictures to gain fame and 
prestige. This is only regarded as child's play to the core of the 
computer underground. Older users write zines or articles that concern 
a wide variety of topics, from drugs to the rights to bear arms. Then 
there is the super-user (coined after the largest access level on the 
internet.) The super-user is the heart of what is known as h/p/a/c or 
hacking, phreaking, anarchy, coding.

	Through all the waring younger users in the couriering (warez) 
scene, one can see the 'lame' attitude of these users. Warez pups only 
feed their egos to gain respect by the older users which never prevails. 
They backstab and constantly compete for the number one spot in the 
global warez scene. The user sinks into h/p/a/c or should I say the 
'Ultimate Hacker.' The 'Ultimate Hacker' usually must break into a phone 
line and secure his position to properly hack into the more prestigious 
sites (government, military installations, etc...). Thus he does what is 
referred to as phreaking (tapping into the phone lines by any means 
illegally.) Even when the site is broken by the super-user (top level 
user access), he must make files and program utilities to automate and 
speed up his entry into the system. The programming of files is known as 
coding, making the super-user complete and in his quest for the open 
system. Although, as the adventures and conquests of the uebercracker 
(rooted word coined by a hacker under Nitzche philosophy) or 'Ultimate 
Hacker' continues, a sense of self-meaning and thine directive takes 
over. The nomad like behavior of the true hacker is in a state of 
anarchy. No one can control the 'Ultimate Hacker' or organize him. The 
'Ultimate Hacker' has no ego to boost or word to spread. The only goal is, 
knowledge and the drug-like experience that rushes through the veins and 
adrenaline which feeds the body. A mentor of the electronic realm. 
Everyday is the last day and the 'Ultimate Hacker' pulls the strings of 
every system. Every word that dashes across the screen; access denied, bad 
password, permission denied. This is just seen as; hack me, try again, 
break into me now, try harder. The 'Ultimate Hacker' lives to the name and 
breaks the code. Nothing is sacred and all is lust.

	In the reality of life, we are all just counterparts and limited 
to our placement in society. Authority acts in a pseudo-caring way but 
remains ready to crush and wage war. The ignorant just pass us off as 
playing games and knowing nothing. Society sets the rules and punishes the 
abnormal. A hacker sees the computer as his eyes and the console as his 
actions. There are no limits to what he can do and the knowledge is 
limitless. Yet the authority ridicules us as being "criminals" and 
"irregardless thieves." The killing and corruption continues in authority 
and we are the ones who are at wrong. Knowledge is a powerful source and 
power tries to restrict knowledge.