Phreak Ethics?

A simple file written by aardwolf (age 15)

Understanding

Why do we waste our time trying to figure out how to beat the system? Cheat the toll? We pay nothing for these services, and our unknowing victims do. Even if they dont pay it, bell does. Dont you think we could be using out knowladge for a better cause? We complain about high prices, profitering gluttons, but we are the ones to blame. I do not say alot of them are plain out greedy, but are we any better? How would you like it if 10 years from now your working for bell, and 10% of your paycheck is taken out due to the huge increce in telecommunications fraud. 5 Billion in the past few years, you know what 5 billion could buy? Alot of homes for the homeless, or food for those without. Maybe Im going crazy, maybe I just had a sudden case of guilt. Maybe im just understanding it from their point of view. Whatever the reason Im just trying to say that we are destroying all that we stand for. Fooling the system is not making it any better for us, or anyone else. I hope you understand that one day...

In this cold, dark time, the fire that burns within ourselves brings no light to us or others


Ethics of a phreak
By: MorningDew (16)


While not everyone may agree with these ideas, I feel that these provide a basic ideal system for phreaks. Also realize this, you don't have to accept it or believe it but it's the truth. Phreaks, among others are responsible for the losses of over 3 million dollars from Bell. The phone companies are there to help phreaks, they are the reason we exist, so please have some respect for them and remember that they help you too. Well here they are

1. Don't exploit a family/group/person that is poor and cannot support themselves already.
2. Don't steal (If you so choose to do) anything from a lineman or any other phone company employee that they could not afford to replace.
3. Do not do anything that would damage a Bell Computer (or any other phone company) or do anything that would inhibit normal phone company operations.
4. Show some respect for the authorities (i.e. the police), for linemen and phone company employees, they may help you out someday, and teach you a thing or two.
5. Don't steal money or damage financial records of any phone company.
6. If you don't know what you are doing with some equipment or are in a place and you don't know what you are doing then leave things alone, you could damage things by accident that you shouldn't, or even kill yourself.


These are only a few basics, if you have any suggestions please mail them to MornyngDew@hotmail.com

The Ethics of a Phreak
By: Luna

The purge of a phone is not to be compared to that of Stalin's purges in Russia. At the death of Lenin, Stalin exiled Trotsky, put his goons in the politburo and proceeded to purge out the unfaithful through mass graves and the every tenth man method. At present we have a Mixed Economy in America, this being a conglomeration of French Socialism and Capitalism, and riddled with the Contract Theory or Exploitation Theory of Douglass North,(if you care to dispute this talk turkey with me later.) we have multibillionares, and empires based upon nothing more than who can trace their ancestors back farther. And I ask myself, as I always do; where does Falco come in, if Wolfgang Mozart ever heard 'Rock Me Amadeus' would he think it was cool? Do the neato numbers and letters on a car such as a Z 128, actually mean something? If one has a better relationship with their German Pen pal than their best friend mean that they are a freak? My point being, lest you have not been able to infer it is that, this is a strange and crazy world we live in. There are many problems and frustrations that we all must deal with, not just on a personal level, but also on a national and global level. Then I must really say, What kind of crime is it to phreak? Criminals, REAL criminals are given a free phone call. Hey, they even let E.T. phone home and those must have been some mad long distance charges. If E.T. could phone home, then why can't I? I myself may have never dipped into Ma Bell's wires for a little phun, but how can I condem an act that is on the grand scheme of things, insignificant. Does this bother you the reader, the phreak that I say your actions are insignificant? Even if you do a mad hack or whatever though I am sure it would boost the ego or distroy the American confidence in security, to what end is this a crime. Morally one could say that it is the ethics behind it. I simply say, they are charging us 35 cents for a phone call, for every legal phone call I make I am losing money I previously did not have toshell out to the monopoly that is Ma Bell, and damnit I Want My Quarter Back! As for the people that say such actions turn into bigger problems, they are the ones who usually say that education is paramont. The N-P-A is a conduit for information. Would those people then be opposed to this form of education? That would be an exception to the rules. If those wise sages really had education they would have remembered the words of Stanley P. Gudder in his book Quantum Probability_ that, 'A slight variation in axioms in a theory can result in a huge change at the frontier.' This is a simple argument, not necessarily for the phreak but for the political actors, and closeminded people out there who live in fear of 'those damn kids.' I leave you all with this thought from my favorite German poet Goethe, (although the true meaning of Goethe's Der Erlkoenig is sick and twisted) who was a man of incredible morals and character, 'It is a maximum of wise government to deal with men as they are, rather than as theyought to be.' PS- If you do read Goethe or most any german thinkers please les es doch auf Deutsch! (read it in German!)

Ethics and The Young Minds of Today
By-Jambi (age15)
NOTE: Please read this whole thing through before you judge it.

Today tomarrow and the next day, children our children and our grandchildren are forced to higher standards. A few years ago you could get a decent job with just a high school education, today you can get by with community college, tommarow you will be required to have a top education to be a burger flipper. Large multimillion dollar companies tired of screwing around with mom and pop operations, the personal side of buisness is lost. No one cares that you couldn't afford to go to college, they just want results, as fast and as cheap as possible. Hundreds of college educated minds in their little cubicles happily pounding out results quickly and cheaply. We work all our life starting in grade school to get good grades to be placed in good high school classes, working in high school to get good grades to go to a good college, go to a good college to get a good job, do good at your job to get what? More money? More possesions? What the hell ever happend to simplicity? It went to those big companies, sitting and watching us work, to make their companies larger, unstopable. For what? More money, more possesions. What about living life? Most of our life will be spent working to be able to work more. Then when we are old and decreped we can sit in our sun chairs wondering what the fuck have I done? What happened? Then we realize the chance we had at a real life is past so we just sit in our sun chairs to old and helpless to do anything about it, because we are already dead. Those mulitimilion dollar corperations wither us away day by day, some have realized what is happening and tried to change it. Everyone is brainwashed into beleiving whatever is fed to you, you no longer think for yourselfs, you think what you are told to think even at a subconcious level. Everyone is brainwashed to reject any forward going ideas that might harm these large money making machines. I'm sure many people think the Unibomber is nuts, but we are the ones who are nuts like some weird episode of the twilite zone. Infact he's the one thats got it right. I do not beleive that people needed to die but I am also not sure how else he could have gotten the point accross. People are caught in the flow of the flash flood of fourtune 500 organizations, and we, the workers that are the base of these organizations are starting to drown. People today are wondering what is wrong with these kids today that live in nice communities and have nice lives that just spontaniously kill people, seemingly with no cause. Its now happening all the time, whats wrong with those kids? They must be nuts. Whats wrong with you?!? You sit and watch the youth of today decay before your eyes and you blame it on drugs and rock music. You blame it on us. ON US! How dare you! Who the hell came up with drugs and rock music? We sure as hell didn't invent it. Who gave birth to us and tought us our ways? YOU DID. Hypocritical america ignoring the youth, THE FOUNDATION of tommarow. See if we give a fuck about you when your in a nursing home not even able to control your blatter functions let alone any giant organizations. Who will control them then? We will, we will control them because that is what was shouved down our throughts and that is what we will shouve down our childrens throughts. These huge organizations use us. They use us almost as a fuel to make their companies grow. They just throw some of us on the fire. Now ask yourself this considering all of what I have just told you. Who here has the lack of ethics. Us? The ones that refuse to pay for a long distance phone call, or use somones credit card to buy somthing that the card company will have to pay for? Or the tyranical organizations that use. That use to fuel their needless and meaningless growth. So, whats your answer ETHICAL PHREAK?