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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>samurai</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="samizdat.html" title="samizdat"/><link rel="next" href="sandbender.html" title="sandbender"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">samurai</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="samizdat.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sandbender.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="samurai"/><dt xmlns="" id="samurai"><b>samurai</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A hacker who hires out for legal cracking jobs, snooping for
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factions in corporate political fights, lawyers pursuing privacy-rights and
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First 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
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a 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 “<span class="quote">net
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cowboys</span>” of William Gibson's <a href="../C/cyberpunk.html"><i class="glossterm">cyberpunk</i></a>
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novels. Those interviewed claim to adhere to a rigid ethic of loyalty to
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their employers and to disdain the vandalism and theft practiced by
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criminal crackers as beneath them and contrary to the hacker ethic; some
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quote Miyamoto Musashi's <i class="citetitle">Book of Five Rings</i>, a
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classic of historical samurai doctrine, in support of these principles.
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See also <a href="sneaker.html"><i class="glossterm">sneaker</i></a>, <a href="Stupids.html"><i class="glossterm">Stupids</i></a>,
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<a href="social-engineering.html"><i class="glossterm">social engineering</i></a>, <a href="../C/cracker.html"><i class="glossterm">cracker</i></a>,
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<a href="../H/hacker-ethic.html"><i class="glossterm">hacker ethic</i></a>, and
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<a href="../D/dark-side-hacker.html"><i class="glossterm">dark-side hacker</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="samizdat.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sandbender.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">samizdat </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> sandbender</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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