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                                        | Xine - issue #1 - Phile 001 |
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  X-ine Editorial
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A word of the old Psyco-Dad (previously known as famous tv-series hero of
Al Bundy)

Well I was told that I'll have to write the editorial so I thought what
could be the topics that most people discuss nowadays. I found that
internet censoring is in everybodies mouth also a lot of people - even if
they don't know how to spell the word internet - are asking louder and
louder for censoring of that net of perverts, hackers and other trash not
worth to get a life. But what is the internet really ? The internet is
always that what a user makes out of it! So let's take to separate
approaches to demonstrate that: Look at Joe Average, working in office as
salesman, having is first contact with the internet on his office
computer. He will perhaps first look for entertainment stuff, games and
so on. Probably, if he is smart enough, he will find the real tough sex
resources as first thing. So what is the internet for him ? What will he
tell his friends about what he thinks the internet means ? For him the
internet perhaps just means a playground where laws do not exist. And he
will tell that to everybody (even to those not asking for his oppinion).
And now lets look at the second approach: An old fashioned computer
freak, in this case also a fido veteran. What does the internet mean to
him ? The realisation of all his dreams ? Messages sent to a user on
another continent won't arrive the next week. No just a few moments later
they are in the mailbox of the recipient. Files can be transferred
without huge costs to your friend in australia or wherever... What will
this subject tell his colleagues and friends ? Obviously he looks at the
internet as perfect medium for communications among people worldwide...
Well and that's just where I find the hook to ikx (that's what all this
stuff is really about..) IKX does in fact mean just that. Communication
among people who are spread all over the world. Like people in baseball
fan club or so we are sharing our interests. But there is one problem:
Our interest is computer security, hacking, phreaking, virus coding and
so on.

What the hell is this zine intended to be ?

Bozo, me, JHB and KernelPanic started this project several months ago to
provide us and other people with the same interests with a way for sharing
information among'em. Well one problem actually is that this information
is said to be illegal and criminal. But why ? We do not destroy our
neighboors data nor do we hack nuclear control computers of the defense
dep. we just want to know how this security things work and how they
could probably be worked around...

Why do we think we are not criminal ?

I strongly believe that the criminal act starts not at the point when you
just know how to do certain things, like i.e. coding a self-replicating
program. It starts when you spread that program and then also the program
would need a very destructive payload to fulfil the requirements of a
criminal act. If we compare that to a man wearing a gun what would we
find ? He is crossing the border not at the point when he just knows how
to fire the gun or how the gun really works - NO. It starts then when he
really fires his gun against another lifeform. Compared to a virus coder
this is the case when the coder spreads his code among people who do not
know what the code is really intended to do with his computer.

But actually we are being punished very hard for just having the gun or
even worser: For just knowing how gun works or having documents explaining
how to build a gun your own. Well as far as I am concerned I would rather
have my computer infected with a totally nasty virus than having one of
those paranoids amok-runners blowing my head in the winds with a
shotgun...

Got the trick ? What I am trying to say is that the right knowing about
those things is part of our freedom of speech. Using it might really lead
one to be charged for it. But not just knowing it.

The situation sometimes reminds me like if the government is saying "we
want to have the biggest guns and you shouldn't have one at all, because
you could stand up against us (the gov.) one time..."

However, the Internet has changed this scene dramatically and we see now
a huge growing of virus infections for example or also a huge growing of
adult-material appearance on the net. As a consequence of that we also
hear the voices crying for the censors hip louder and louder day by day.

This makes it extremly important for us to not being involved in any
hacking/virus/phreaking etc. issues where damage is the result of one of
our members activities. That means not that if we develop a new i.e.
infection technology or security hole that we may not share this
information with others. It just means we may not at all use it for
damaging others peoples systems. If people abuse this information then -
they are responsible for what they do but not WE! If we compare that to my
example with the gun: The guy that sold the gun will not be punished for
what the buying customer does at least with the gun...right ? Or will GM
be charged for one killing a kiddie with his car ? Will Budweiser be
punished for inventing alcoholism or for wifebeating of drunken men ?
NO - definitely not.

The information you are going to see in this zine can infact be used to
do damage and/or harm and loss to others. Please be aware of that and if
you feel yourself not responsible enough for that just stop here and go
to a nice website like www.playboy.com or www.microsaft.com or so...

So guys let's fight for our right to know!

All your comments/criticism is heavily welcome at [e-mail]

And now let's start thru to the first issue of the famous IKX-ine!!!