Reply To: Hacker Shul

The term hacking is derived from a group MIT engineers who liked to figure things out by hacking on them, i.e. trying the obvious and not so obvious permutations of an interface and seeing what happens. Sometimes this is picking a lock to see how it works, or overflowing the buffers of a computer program to see whether it is secure. There are hackers with different ‘hats.’ I’m not proposing breaking any commercial laws, but I’m not 100% familiar with Chosen Mishpat etc., so it would be helpful to have some who is nearby.

My start-up idea is conceptually presented at YSenate.org and I’d like to use it as a subtle vehicle for promoting Noachide laws. (But not as a religion per se.)

The ‘internet’ issue would require some liberalism, but that is part of motive: keep the internet in ‘hacker shul’ and out of the home. Avoid hacking while alone, its dangerous.