The Hardware Hacker Manifesto
Originally written and published 2010-09-21 – Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License Edited to replace deadname.
This post is a long time in coming. For years we’ve been seeing an active fight against the right to utilize hardware the way the owner wishes to use it, but it wasn’t until this week that it got personal, driving me to write this. Please, share this far and wide; hardware hacking is essential and we’re losing ground to those who would love to see it done away with.
The Hardware Hacker Manifesto
My name is Sera and I’m a hardware hacker. It started at the age of five, taking apart a toy computer to figure out how it worked. I live for that thrill of discovery and rush of power that I feel when I figure out what makes something tick, then figure out how to bend it to my will. This has led to me hacking everything from game consoles to phones.
It used to be that...