Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 15:24:16 -0700 From: jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's in my hard drive? How can I get rid of it? Message-ID: <54E3BF90.9060609@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150217222744.0a9b1d87@archlinux> References: <54E39F83.70002@gmail.com> <20150217202411.GA42894@neutralgood.org> <20150217222744.0a9b1d87@archlinux>
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On 02/17/2015 02:27 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 15:24:11 -0500, kpneal@pobox.com wrote: >> http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html > When I was young we cracked copying protections and removed bugs from > the broken assembler code of software we pay for. If we wouldn't have > cracked the copy protection, it would have damaged our floppy disks > (Commodore 1541 bump, with later disks using a light barrier, it was > impossible to load the copy protected software, we needed to remove the > light barrier and/or crack the copy protection) and if we wouldn't have > fixed the bugs, the software wouldn't have worked. > > That was a note about the "criminal" hackers from my generation and now > a note about the "criminal" hackers about the current generation. > > Guerilla Open Access Manifesto: > https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt > > IOW it's an ethical decision. I never read a diary of somebody else, > just because I was able to do it. Cracking software we pay for, that > doesn't work and/or will damage our hardware, hacking for social > commitment are good ethical reasons. > > Schadenfreude and greed are bad. > I believe a major overhaul of the software industry (both open source and commercial) is way way overdue. A people's tribunal of highly capable software and hardware engineers is desperately needed to look into the source codes of all SW and HW designs and implementations - including the compilers and assemblers.
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