{"id":173,"date":"2008-02-20T12:42:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T10:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/?p=173"},"modified":"2008-02-20T12:42:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T10:42:43","slug":"what-it-means-to-be-a-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"What it means to be a hacker …"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting article describing the struggle againts black box e-voting in the Netherlands.
\nWritten by my good friend Rop Gonggrijp<\/a> (the driving force of the ‘against e-voting campaign’ <\/a>in .NL).<\/p>\n

(Source Wired<\/a>. Originally published in 2600 magazine<\/a>, Winter issue – #4, 2007)<\/p>\n

What it means to be a hacker<\/FONT><\/p>\n

by Rop Gonggrijp<\/p>\n

My most recent confrontation with what it means to be a hacker started in March of 2006, after I went to vote for the local council of Amsterdam. At the polling station, I had to use a brand-new electronic voting machine that the city was renting from a company called Sdu. In fact, Amsterdam had contracted the entire election as a turnkey service, Sdu was even training the poll-workers. This “voting machine” was in fact a computer with a touch screen running Windows. To make maters worse: inside each computer was a GPRS wireless modem that sent the election results to Sdu, which in turn told the city. I had not been blind to the problems of electronic voting before, but now I was having my face rubbed in it, and it hurt.<\/p>\n

Perhaps I should quickly introduce myself. My name is Rop Gonggrijp and I’m a dutch national that lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Some of you will know me as I have been mentioned in this magazine<\/a> as well as been a regular guest on Off the Hook<\/a> for almost as long as the show exists. I’m one of the main organizers for these Dutch hacker events. Between 1989 and 1993 I published Hack-Tic<\/a>, a magazine not unlike 2600 except that it was written in Dutch. During the late Hack- Tic years I co-founded XS4ALL, which still is one of the larger ISPs in The Netherlands.<\/p>\n

I guess I became part of the hacker community sometime during the early 1980s while playing with my fathers 300 baud acoustic modem, although arguably I was hacking before when I was soldering FM- transmitters together with a friend at age 12. But after reading Steven Levy’s book ‘Hackers, heroes of the computer revolution’<\/a>, I knew what I was and that I was to be part of a global community, even if I could only knew a few other hackers around me. <\/p>\n

… read the full article at Wired<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting article describing the struggle againts black box e-voting in the Netherlands. Written by my good friend Rop Gonggrijp (the driving force of the ‘against e-voting campaign’ in .NL). (Source Wired. Originally published in 2600 magazine, Winter issue – #4, 2007) What it means to be a hacker by Rop Gonggrijp My most recent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}