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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://vimeo.com/215195101">https://vimeo.com/215195101</a></p>
<p>In the Last Dancer, which is one of the great books on hacking
you can download <a
href="https://www.immunityinc.com/downloads/TheLastDancer.pdf">here
</a>there's a page, which I'm going to copy in its entirely below.
But it's about implants. And I have no fucking idea how Daniel
Keys Moran, who is a professional database engineer, not a hacker,
knew the things he knew about hacking when he wrote this in like,
the early 90's, but he did. Early hacking books are interesting,
because while some of DKMs terminology survived and came to the
present (replicant code, etc.) much of it is different. Image is
what a modern hacker would call an Implant, essentially. "Dancing"
for hacking, etc. <br>
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<p>Which, of course, is also true about hacker nicknames. There are
whole crews out there that don't use nicks for ANYTHING. Because
once you're famous, you have no margin for error.</p>
<p>Anyways, my point is this - implant writers have lineages like
martial artists. There are so many important choices to make and
you're going to forget why you made them. Not just you, your
entire community and team. <br>
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<p>So when I rewatched Stephanie's talk, I'm looking at it in two
dimensions - what are the technical issues she's solving, so I
don't have to solve them myself, but also what choices is she
making that she doesn't even know she's making because those trade
offs are as much a part of her inherited culture as her clothes
and speech and the food she eats? We all attend INFILTRATE in a
different way, but I try to spend time making sure analysis is
done after a talk. If all you do is watch the talks the one time,
without tying them together, or looking at a theme, or putting
them in context, then wtf are you doing running a conference?<br>
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<p>-dave</p>
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