Hakiri

Let’s face it, we are all professionals here, so presenting ourselves is key when meeting clients and conducting business. If you have coded up some amazing projects, what’s the best way to present them to potential clients or buyers?, or even as a way to say hey, I know what I’m doing, hire me!. Abhinav Dapke has designed a concept business card which seems to be heading in the right direction.

The card works by having a flap on the rear of the card and can be used to attach different memory sizes, and a pair of slits can be used for the USB adapter. Now before you all post a comment and say this isn’t usable Daniel… it’s a glimpse of what the future might be. From a hacking perspective, you could include a whole series of tools, papers and code on the business card and have a OS in the pocket. Forget portable apps, have a portable platform.

It’s no great secret that most of the worlds brilliant idea’s and concepts have been given life on some form of paper napkin, loose scrap of paper of something else that was close during the initial brainstorm.

With this in mind, advertising agency Euro RSCG has created the perfect gift for anyone trying to think of the next big thing.

I was checking Full-disclosure this morning and this what I’ve stumbled upon.

Have you ever considered your future in their hands? You’ve been working for 50 years, your liver and kidneys start failing, creating visible symptoms, stains in your skin. You can’t handle life in the same way anymore. For what? What have you done in those 50 years but serving another man to become more wealthy and over powered. The approaching day of your death and its mere vision strikes you like a burning iron blade.

…talented youth started emerging and dedicated passionately to fulfill its curiosity. Day after day, spending countless hours in front of a machine. Understanding it’s inner design and details, breaking it apart and reassembling it the way it wasn’t meant to be assembled.

[a parable of looking for filthy lucre in a trade of love, only to to discover that these dark funds have tainted the joy and purity of a process and lifestyle that once brought fulfillment]

sooner or later every authentic hacker discovers that you must separate work from play. when you try and mix them both you betray the joy and fulfillment of hacking for a paycheck, and it never pays enough.

the ability of a person to deny and downplay this reality will determine their ability to abide the infosecwhore industry.

as captain of their own independent ship they can insulate themselves from much of this whoreish taint, but sooner or later a labor for lucre will destroy the love.

no need to preach, the authentic hacker will discover this on their own accord sooner or later. it is inevitable.

for those of you on the cusp of this realization and ready to start anew, do it. abandon ship. find a comfy admin or analyst position with decent benefits and a wage that pays the mortgage.

adopt that pseudonym and rediscover the joy of hacking for its own sake. the rewards are still there, worth more than a dollar can provide…

Of course, as being one of the main guys behind this project I couldn’t do anything else but to put down what I think about the matter. The text was slightly modified in order to fit into the type of content suitable for this site:

right, this is what I like to call hacker romanticism, but do you know what? it does not work this way! only in the movies, I guess! so if you are a hacker, if you truly believe that you are a hacker, then you will find a way to be better off then anybody else without the need to break any laws and without compromising your passions at all.

there is one very old Chinese saying: find a job that you love and you will never work for the rest of your life. Being a technically talented person and spending your life as a poor sysadmin is completely unnecessary. Running away from money because you think that they will corrupt you or they will compromise your identity is also quite foolish to say, don’t you think? money are just means to an end, a tool of trade, and sometimes this is exactly what you need in order to cross to the next level.

hacking is not about the inner geek and the vision of the lonely cyber worrier. hacking is about outsmarting others. it is about thinking creatively and moreover, thinking differently. if you can hack computer systems, then hack life. you will soon realize the the skills that you have obtained while being a technical hacker can be applied to many other disciplines, and these skills are more valuable then you think. collecting the fruits of your work is the most rewarding feeling.

the problem I see is that hacking has become something that is not. the computer security hacker circles lost the sense of creativity and turned it into plain procedure. most, if not all, of the security vulnerabilities disclosed today are discovered due to simple rules. you do this, you run that, you wait, you’ve got it. this is not hacking. given enough time, anybody can learn that. but embracing the mindset is something that a few can do.