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Show Coffee Drinkers Preferred Page 20 of 307 passwords at some databases. You're gonna need these. So just follow along and take notes in this pad." He handed me a small pocket-sized notebook. I stood there at the ready. "C'mon. Pull that chair up and scoot in. You've got to be able to read along with me." I pulled up the chair. "The stink won't kill you." He laughed. He showed me the first name on his list and went to work. He typed like a maddened Mickey Spillane. I would have paid all the money in my meager bank account to learn the things that he was able to do. I took notes as fast as I could but sometimes he would take a turn and I would have to say, "Wait," as I scrawled out an IP or a URL. He was walking in the front of door of some places, going, through and slipping out their back doors so he could enter the side door of somewhere else and then race down into the basements as he brushed cobwebs out of his eyes. Half of what he did, he did with terminal commands. I never like to call myself a hacker because it has so many i negative connotations, but almost all of my background in terminal commands comes from studying Usenet hacking discussions. I started doing it when I was about thirteen. I learned there was an Internet out there that was so much more open and free if you could just use words and codes and letters and numbers and symbols |