-d.o.c.-, the savior of us all. One way or the other.
In mindset, attitude, ideology and most importantly, in manor... doc was a true an0n.
Back before mitnick sold out, red boxing was cool and while google was still on a table in the garage, I was still nestled in daddies ball sack. I was born soon enough though, just in time to experience the crash in the 80's and grew up poor as all hell. Lucky for me an Uncle was going to a tiny community college and he lived so close he was able to study at grandmas in his room. Needless to say, little ol me was curious to see what uncle was doing upstairs. Turns out he was playing some karate game on the tv, while typing homework and fidgeting with a stick box button. When he asked me if I wanted to know how to change the colors (shades-b/w) of the figures on the screen, I was skeptical but I watched. It was the coolest thing in the whole friggin' world to me. Since the whole family had to scratch money together to get him through the cost of college books, he was happy to regurgitate everything he learned that day for the sake of memory refresh. It came easy while I was young and I practically graduated with my uncle from college with a bachelors, yet I was just 12 years old. Moving on from that point, my mind hungered for knowledge of the digital realm. It was missed and of course, school bored me and my grades took a hit since I didnt have any motivation to complete the provided 'establishment' education. *ihatenuns. Now the only science I consumed was from an 8th grade class level writer, a failed individual that can do nothing but tell kids what is correct and what not. I failed in math and many other subjects, they tried to flunk me. Got testing and ended up skipping a grade, for the first time have I tasted the sweet sweet nectar of proving that the system doesnt work. In a way, I manipulated my own progrm. Knowing the secret of getting through school quickly, be lazy- wait until fail- get testing and skip grade, I knew I had an eye for patterns. Once I got into it, I was hacking my whole life. I graduated from 'high' school when I was 15. I had all the testing done and everyone said I am a genius but the problem is that my family didnt have the funds to send me to the schools these people suggested I needed. Doomed from the start, IF you follow the system and allow them to lead you. Here I chose to do what I could do as a 15 year old shitty public school graduate. Not a god damn thing besides getting high (pep, cocarettes, speed, pot, lsd, shrooms and spinning vinyl at local clubs w parental permission.) and hacking ALL the things. Sometimes hacking them together with others during times when nothing was automated.. A hop meant: run to the next phone booth (or port, infrared beam etc), strap up, dial and check your cords.. Yeah those were the times (heavy backpacks!). Then I had to get a job to afford ISDN stuffs + laptops and everything shifted to internet cafes and the 'homeless hacker'/google era. Ill just cut right there, otherwise this will go further than it already has. Anyways, doc inspired me to not 'just' be a hat but to be able to appreciate all the hats. I would have to say, that was a life saving inspiration in a time they were hunting people that owned computers and were armed with curiosity. I will always be thankful. It gave me time to get my real life together, play the systems game again, clean my vest, hide the hat and get a move on professionally. Did what I had to do, built an avatar that the system accepted and I even ended up working for the very people that have oppressed people like us for so long.. Coincidence? I think not.
Being human caused me to become a natural hacker, a social engineer extraordinaire. I learned like/feel/need/perceive is a variable depending on where you go. Some places, folks give you their like for nothing at all and other places: I had to work for it. Either way, I had to harness this newly found knowledge and tinker further. Life has big one big puzzle if you ask me and I was destined to find the box cover. Every advantage is great, even those advances that people are no longer capable of thinking of. They are in old sheep mode, guide dog not needed or might heard themselves.
It is the direct result of society and perceived humanity attempting to mold each and every one of us they way a consensus perceives it is the best for the individual. I have always protected my true self and merely 'agreed' to the delusional opinion being a necessary evil to the ends of freeing me from their control. Yes, it is sad on all counts.
Remember, they only mattered because I needed certain results in order to move forward, they are all just nodes I bnc'd off of. WHen I met doc, the seed of what anonymous is to me was planted. Surely back then he had the right idea. Now that I am back, I am proud to see what has grown out of how he lived his life. All I can say is, its unbelievable how strong his spirit lives among so many worldwide. Its like we are offspring in a way, which is sick because ive probably fucked 3 of my own sisters, lol.. anyways.
We all morph and move on eventually.
Except us, WE ARE LEGION, NEVER FORGET.
-archaic.3rph3v0n.an0n