Ghost in the machine, it's a ghost of me

I been runnin and chasin that dopamine

Couple of websites hostin me

Like a parasite your servers are host to me

And a couple of shells that I wrote in C

Buildin my botnet potency

Expanding my network globally

Other hackers thinkin locally

I'm from a different time where we did this shit for fun

Where we'd pop one shell just to pop another one

Now the kids all tryna be on top of hacker one

But they got no idea how their tools even run

Like "Why ain't it work I ran dot slash hack"

"Real cool tool, is there a gui for that?"

"I can't even find any apps to attack"

It's about time we take hacking back

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It's about time we take hacking back

Hacking back, hack hacking back

It's about time we take hacking back

Hack, hack, hacking back

I remember the days, I was surfin Zone-H

Check the home page for another deface

Nothing but notepad, wrote my own page

Those were the days of the cyber stone age

Before OffSec ran the exploit database

If you want to get the latest milw0rm is the place

Then you segfault, sigterm, ptrace

Til you find the bit of code that they left out of place

I'm from a different time where we didn't use our names

Where we did this shit for fun not just tryna claim the fame

Now the kids all complain that they gotta use their brain

If the exploit chain harder than their video game

I don't blame 'em though, it accelerated quickly

It's others from my time that got me feelin prickly

Cause they're selling y'all courses and lessons and lying

Like they found an easy button, just ninety nine ninety nine

Fuck em