True hackers are curious and patient. True hackers want to learn, or want to satisfy their curiosity, that's why they get into the system. To search around inside of a place they've never been, to explore all the little nooks and crannies of a world so unlike the boring cess-pool we live in. True hackers are disgusted at the way things are in this world. All the wonderful technology of the world costs three arms and four legs to get these days.
True hackers are quiet.
The number one killer of those the media would have us call hackers is bragging. I honestly don't know what purpose this file will serve, maybe someone somewhere will read it, and know the truth about hackers. Not the lies that the ignorant spread. If I am not, then I at least am saying what I think a true hacker should be. Either way, it was written by The Mentor, and it is absolutely the best thing ever written on the subject of hackers.