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"I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto."
The Conscience of a Hacker
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Hacker stories. Security narratives. Phreaker history. Electronic music for the people who listen at 3am.
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The Hacker Manifesto: 'My Crime is That of Curiosity'
The Mentor's Hacker Manifesto, published in Phrack 7 in 1986 after his arrest. The document that defined hacker philosophy for forty years. Why it still resonates when the world it described is almost entirely gone.
by Ripper :: May 1, 2026 :: 7 min read
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01SIG04.07.27Aphex Twin's Spectrogram Hacks
02SIG03.17.27Kraftwerk's Computer World as Prophecy
03SIG02.24.27The Roland TB-303: How a Failed Bass Guitar Created Acid House
04SIG02.03.27Daphne Oram and Oramics
05SIG01.13.27Delia Derbyshire and the Radiophonic Workshop
06SIG12.23.26Cult of the Dead Cow and Back Orifice
07SIG12.02.26The L0pht Testimony: Seven Hackers Before Congress
08SIG11.11.26MOD vs LOD: The First Hacker War
09SIG10.21.26c0mrade: The Teenager Who Hacked NASA
10SIG10.01.26Tsutomu Shimomura: The Vigilante Who Hunted Kevin Mitnick
11SIG09.30.26Karl Koch: Hagbard Celine and the KGB Hack
12SIG09.15.26Mark Abene: The Kid Who Understood the Network Better Than the Feds