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samurai
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n. A hacker who hires out for legal cracking jobs, snooping for factions in
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corporate political fights, lawyers pursuing privacy-rights and First
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Amendment cases, and other parties with legitimate reasons to need an
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electronic locksmith. In 1991, mainstream media reported the existence of a
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loose-knit culture of samurai that meets electronically on BBS systems,
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mostly bright teenagers with personal micros; they have modeled themselves
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explicitly on the historical samurai of Japan and on the net cowboys of
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William Gibson's cyberpunk novels. Those interviewed claim to adhere to a
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rigid ethic of loyalty to their employers and to disdain the vandalism and
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theft practiced by criminal crackers as beneath them and contrary to the
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hacker ethic; some quote Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings , a classic
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of historical samurai doctrine, in support of these principles. See also
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sneaker , Stupids , social engineering , cracker , hacker ethic , and
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dark-side hacker.
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