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The Beginning of an Evil the Net Did Not Exist Yet.
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- Thu Jul 11 2002

... The Beginning Of An Evil The net did not exist yet. Hackers were mainframe programmers, Commodore 64, and Apple users. Cracked software and hacker/cracker tools are traded between friends. Joe trades his "cracked" (copy protection removed) of a hot new game to Pete for Pete's home brew disk editor. There were ethical standards imposed upon these trades and hackers who demonstrated anti-social behaviour where soon ostracised and no longer traded with. This kept things under control to a great extent. Most hacked for the knowledge foremost with the challenge and the competition running close behind. Who can break the new game first? Who can write the best tool? Groups formed, combined their efforts, and tried to outdo each other. The IBM PC is released and computers and software become more plentiful, cheaper, and a lot more people get into hacking. The software companies begin to use more and more sophisticated security














