How to pretend to be a Hacker

Step 1. Invent a cool handle. Something enigmatic. Try non-English word. Do not use obvious names. Also do not use names of characters from games or Matrix.

You need to pretend like you have been around for a long time. So make sure your handle is not bound by popular-culture references.

So now that you have a cool handle. Time to get cooler.

Step 2. Now you need to build a myth about yourself. Remember you are not known, partly because you have been so good that nobody ever caught you. But now you wish to slowly "disclose" yourself in an attempt to cash in when the society worships the techno-geeks.

Step 3. Write a couple of cracking and hacking tutorials. They might be old and would never work with current technology but write them anyway. Use LINUX, or even better, use UNIX.

Step 4. Stick to IRC and try to just be aloof while still disclosing your "exploits" to anyone willing to listen. You will always find "students" who wish to learn from you. (the ones who shall msg you with Give them the tutorials that have no use any longer but to show that you know something.

Step 5. Start a blog. And roam around forums throwing your handle once in a while as a reference.

Your handle needs to come on a google search.

Step 6. Step back. Don't try too hard. Its important to not overdo it.
Join all the free-software campaigns. And fight against IP. And for P2P. And against Microsoft. If you are a programmer, make sure you pretend to have a past you don't want to talk about even as you throw in references of your handle once in a while. (in the middle of your code. in the middle of conversations. anywhere.)

Step 7. This is the most you can do without being an actual hacker.

Anything I left out?