Um, right. Sort of poetic, but I can't say it makes me sympathize with hackers. They still come off as immature loners. Only with this speech, they sound like delusional immature loners.
If I were to hear this spoken to my face, I would respond something like this:
"So you want more out of life, huh? You think you aren't being treated by everyone the way you want to be treated. And just what is it that makes you think you're unique? I've got news for you. Everybody wants more out of life. Everybody wants to be treated a little better. Everybody wishes they could be realized to their full potential or what they believe is their full potential.
So you think you're being spoon-fed baby food instead of the steak you want? Why don't you try being glad that you're spoon-fed anything in the first place? Here you are with access to a computer, something that more than 80% of the world's people can't claim. You are literate which is something that most people of the world can't claim. You can be relatively sure that you will still be alive tomorrow. And here you are demanding that more be given to you? Why don't you go out and get it yourself? Read books if you want to learn more than what they teach you in school. Get a job if you want to earn more money than your allowance. Learn to cook if you want to eat something different.
You pretend to be concerned with the world by lambasting the wars that go on and the corporations that provide services to us, but you aren't fooling me. This isn't about the world. It's about you and your dissatisfied ego. Because you believe that you aren't being recognized for your intelligence, you go and hack a banking system. Never mind that you may have destroyed the life savings of a World War II veteran. Never mind that you may have royally screwed over a single mom working two jobs and raising a kid in inner city New York. 'I am here to denounce the government,' you cry, and yet the problems of the government are the last thing on your mind. It's all about you and what you perceive as the injustices against you.
You want to talk wars and injustice? Get into the mind of the Palestinian suicide bomber who feels that he has lost so much of his identity that he will willingly give up his life for the cause of his people. Then look at the world through the eyes of the Israeli who lost his 12 year old daughter, the hope of his future and joy of his life. Can you understand the pain that these people live with? Can you see how pitiful your personal problems are in comparison?
You think I will accuse you of being a criminal, but you are wrong. I won't dignify you with the term 'criminal.' Criminals are adults. You are a child."
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