2009-02-01, 10:32 AM
It all started in a beautiful day. i came back from school, turned on the computer, entered maplestory, and logged in, just to find out that i was mysteriously expelled from Odyssey. Im in Odyssey for almost a year, i have many friends there, and i was not extremely surprised because i already got expelled by mistake once. I contacted one of my Jr friends, and asked him what is this all about. He said that one of the Jrs called Elaniki, who is a real life friend of the master and has his log-in info, decided to expel me and warned the Jrs that if they will invite me back, he will kick them too.
Elaniki? i dont think i ever talked with him... but the name does ring a bell... i probably saw him a few times, but i dont remember having any problems with someone in the guild. anyway, i investigated more, and quickly found out that he expelled me because i go to forums which also discuss maplestory hacking, CEF in particular. or the way he called it, "hacking forums".
I will not deny it. yes, i am a programmer, and i go to underground coding forums, which are often called "hacking forums" by people who dont really know what hacking means.
Now i'd like to say a couple of things about programmers and underground coders.
Programmers are a type of people, who have the ability to take a complicated procedure and brake it apart in their mind into many, many small operations. Note that programming also exists outside of computers and electronic chips - there are many things in real life which are very close to computer programming. Programmers are directly related to the world's technological evolution, and they work hard to make things for humanity that no one else could make. Almost everything around us didnt exist if programmers werent there to make it, starting from computers, smart phones, softwares, games, televisions, and ending in complicated machines and robots which allow us to easily create everything non programming related, like food, furniture, buildings, and more. if programmers didnt exist, we were still stuck in the 19th century, living in buildings made out of wood and farming for money.
Underground Coders are programmers, usually more successful ones, who wanted to know more than how to use a software someone else made (a programming language) to build other softwares, and turned themselves in to the "dark side". underground coders focus on security in general, and on the ability to reverse a binary file back into a human-readable script form in particular. that is the reason why they are also often called "Reverse Engineers". NOTE THAT UNDERGROUND CODERS ARE NOT ESSENTIALLY HACKERS. many INCA (GameGuard), Nexon, or Microsoft employees are underground coders.
This is not the first time im being called a hacker just because i know a bit more about computers than a large part of the economy. my programmer friends are also usually afriad to say that they are programmers in online games, because people immediately relate it to hacking. I do not understand why should i be ashamed for being a part of this relatively-small but important group, which serves humanity and their needs time after time, for tens of years. Instead of that, humanity should be ashamed for excluding us and calling us hackers, without getting their facts straight (did you know that over 95% of the maplestory so-called-hackers are not underground coders, and are not even mere programmers? this is not just an assumption, i made a research), and without having any evidence, proof, or even a logical reason to think that we are hackers. thats like saying that everyone who has a gun license is a psychopathic murderer, just because he has all the requirements to be one.
This is not a hacking discussion. this thread barely has anything to do with hacking, let alone maplestory hacking. What im trying to understand is the logic behind expelling an old guild made, breaking contact with him, and taking drastic measures such as threatening jr.masters, just because you heard that he goes to hacking forums.
Elaniki? i dont think i ever talked with him... but the name does ring a bell... i probably saw him a few times, but i dont remember having any problems with someone in the guild. anyway, i investigated more, and quickly found out that he expelled me because i go to forums which also discuss maplestory hacking, CEF in particular. or the way he called it, "hacking forums".
I will not deny it. yes, i am a programmer, and i go to underground coding forums, which are often called "hacking forums" by people who dont really know what hacking means.
Now i'd like to say a couple of things about programmers and underground coders.
Programmers are a type of people, who have the ability to take a complicated procedure and brake it apart in their mind into many, many small operations. Note that programming also exists outside of computers and electronic chips - there are many things in real life which are very close to computer programming. Programmers are directly related to the world's technological evolution, and they work hard to make things for humanity that no one else could make. Almost everything around us didnt exist if programmers werent there to make it, starting from computers, smart phones, softwares, games, televisions, and ending in complicated machines and robots which allow us to easily create everything non programming related, like food, furniture, buildings, and more. if programmers didnt exist, we were still stuck in the 19th century, living in buildings made out of wood and farming for money.
Underground Coders are programmers, usually more successful ones, who wanted to know more than how to use a software someone else made (a programming language) to build other softwares, and turned themselves in to the "dark side". underground coders focus on security in general, and on the ability to reverse a binary file back into a human-readable script form in particular. that is the reason why they are also often called "Reverse Engineers". NOTE THAT UNDERGROUND CODERS ARE NOT ESSENTIALLY HACKERS. many INCA (GameGuard), Nexon, or Microsoft employees are underground coders.
This is not the first time im being called a hacker just because i know a bit more about computers than a large part of the economy. my programmer friends are also usually afriad to say that they are programmers in online games, because people immediately relate it to hacking. I do not understand why should i be ashamed for being a part of this relatively-small but important group, which serves humanity and their needs time after time, for tens of years. Instead of that, humanity should be ashamed for excluding us and calling us hackers, without getting their facts straight (did you know that over 95% of the maplestory so-called-hackers are not underground coders, and are not even mere programmers? this is not just an assumption, i made a research), and without having any evidence, proof, or even a logical reason to think that we are hackers. thats like saying that everyone who has a gun license is a psychopathic murderer, just because he has all the requirements to be one.
This is not a hacking discussion. this thread barely has anything to do with hacking, let alone maplestory hacking. What im trying to understand is the logic behind expelling an old guild made, breaking contact with him, and taking drastic measures such as threatening jr.masters, just because you heard that he goes to hacking forums.
